So Far, So Good
Posted December 12th, 2009 by James SlusherCategories: family, health, life
The back surgery was Wednesday and I can still walk and feel my feet, so we’ve eliminated the worst-case scenarios. There is still quite a bit of pain and discomfort from the surgery itself, but that is not unexpected. The goal of the operation was to eliminate the sciatic nerve pain and that part has mixed, but optimistic, reviews. My legs and butt are still painful (though to a lesser degree than pre-op) and some of it might just be the fact that these nerves had been firing away for a year and it might take some time for them to get back to normal. The extreme number of staples running down my back in two parallel lines at the base look like something out of a cheap horror movie, but nobody said that this would be a looks enhancer. The scars are going to be pretty nasty.
I’ve already been told by my wife several times that I am a horrible patient. The doctor told me to not sit around and feel sorry for myself, so I’ve shuffled about and did some small things that my wife still thinks is too much. I got a severe tongue-lashing last night for putting a dish in the dishwasher. How is that for ironic? She’s been trying to get me to do that for over a decade and now that I did it, she fusses at me.
She and I and we will be just fine. I expect the aches and pains to lessen over the next few weeks and to be back to some sort of normalcy by Spring of next year. I may not be doing anything extreme, but back to my normal type of grind will be great.