That is some serious stuff!
We all have a lot to be thankful for, to be sure. You never have to look too far to find someone else with far bigger concerns than your own.
I wish her all the best, and thanks for the well-wishes here.
I think I may have posted this earlier, but I am home (was not even hospitalized over night). I went in Wednesday morning, and came home about 10:00 that night. Wired.
I still have not really slept well, but not for any good reason. Pain is minimal, from the incision only (no residual leg pain whatsoever). The 1 1/2" incision is pretty much just like a knife-stick, is suppose, and other than taking care that it heals properly, I should be fine until the neck flares up again. That sounds like a completely different scenario. More invasive. Maybe something I do at work is causing the neck to bother me, because it really hasn't since I've been off.
I'll see the Doc for a post-op follow-up on the 26th, so I won't return to work before then, though I should be able to drive myself to that appointment. Hopefully he will clear me for work and riding again.
I'm missing all this fine December-January riding weather down here!
The one suggestion I want to get out LOUD AND CLEAR, is that if you need similar surgery for a similar problem, CONSULT A NEUROSURGEON! My whole life whenever I think "neuro" anything, I'm thinking "small". And I really believe that a Neurosurgeon better understands and is better equipped to understand what is causing the pain (nerve impingement or aggravation), and can do a better job of stopping the pain with a more minimally invasive procedure. Everyone I have talked to had to go one way or the other. Those that went the orthopaedic way all had to deal with pain afterwards and more invasive surgeries. All that had neurosurgery say pain is gone upon coming out of the anesthesia, and had much smaller incisions to heal, too.
