Checking in, y'all.
Thanks for all the well wishes and prayers the other day, friends. I know I have not been around for such a long time, but as I said earlier that it is hard to shake this depression I have gotten in from this back injury
I made it through the surgery well. It was delayed around 2 1/2 hours, so it made it very long without eating or drinking. The anesthesiologist I asked to take care of me even changed his dinner arrangements to give me my anesthesia which was so nice. He did the best in snowing me throughout the operation. I had to be awake for this (yeah, it is so much fun laying on my tummy with tons of pillows under my torso showing my bottom to all!) The procedure took around 1 1/2 hours which felt like 5 minutes since I was so snowed.
The back pain is incredible right now and I am bed ridden for three days but the good thing is that the leg pain that has been so dominant in my life for six months is almost gone! I am not sure it is gone all the way since all I am doing is laying around in bed, but I am being optimistic.
They are working on getting me off the heavy pain meds, also which is probably the reason why my back hurts more than it would...but I gotta realize that I just had a discectomy of L4-5 and L5-S1 through a scope rather than an open incision, but still a big operation otherwise.
So, anyhoo...sorry for the long post, but wanted to update you on my progress. Thanks again for the PD and prayers and PM's! You all are wonderful!