Surgery update
Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 12:27 pm
I wanted to post last night but was just too tired.
Boonie's surgery went very well. He had six disks replaced in his neck.
Because the bone graft from his hip was so strong and looked really good, the doctors did not place the titanium plate on the back of his neck. Just the one on the front.
The surgery was 10 hours long. His brother & I got there about 2 p.m. and my cousin & friend from college sat with us until he came out of recovery. Everyone brought food; we had a little picnic in the waiting room.
We visited with him a little last night and I was with him two hours this morning before coming to work.
He'll be transferred out of ICU tomorrow.
The waves of relief of almost overwhelming. We'd worried so much about all the things that could go wrong - a friend of our had a stroke after a similar operation (with NO predictors) and, although the friend has recovered VERY nicely, that was in the back of our minds.
It also seems as if we've been in this forever, because we first started talking about surgery back in the fall.
We know recovery will be long - six months at the outside, said the doctor - but I know everything will be fine.
Thanks for all the thoughts and prayers.
Boonie's surgery went very well. He had six disks replaced in his neck.
Because the bone graft from his hip was so strong and looked really good, the doctors did not place the titanium plate on the back of his neck. Just the one on the front.
The surgery was 10 hours long. His brother & I got there about 2 p.m. and my cousin & friend from college sat with us until he came out of recovery. Everyone brought food; we had a little picnic in the waiting room.
We visited with him a little last night and I was with him two hours this morning before coming to work.
He'll be transferred out of ICU tomorrow.
The waves of relief of almost overwhelming. We'd worried so much about all the things that could go wrong - a friend of our had a stroke after a similar operation (with NO predictors) and, although the friend has recovered VERY nicely, that was in the back of our minds.
It also seems as if we've been in this forever, because we first started talking about surgery back in the fall.
We know recovery will be long - six months at the outside, said the doctor - but I know everything will be fine.
Thanks for all the thoughts and prayers.