To my buzznet friends....
I have been gone for quite some time! Wow, well, here is what has been up. Work cut me off to you guys so I wasn't able to leave posts from work but I got a computer at home so it's all good.
My youngest daughter, which if you are my friends, you know about already. She had to have surgery on the 23rd of March for tubes to be put into her ears. She is fine and thanks to those of you that keep in touch with me off of the Buzz for all the well wishes for her.
I had told you all previously about a disease which I had that was causing me a lot of pain. Some people don't know of DDD and I must admit it hit me at a young age. Degenerative Disk Disease is painful. I had been to the surgeon to be checked back in August of 2005 and went through the channels I had to go through such as having an epidural injection, pain medication etc. Well, that wore off way too soon. I went back to the surgeon about a month ago and scheduled surgery.
March 27th, which happened to be my 26th birthday, turned out to be the day I went in for surgery. I was very nervous considering I have 3 small kids and no way to take care of them on my own. My mom has been a great deal of help to me. She has been with me everyday. I had the surgery and the surgeon told me he was surprised when he went in to find out that the disk had degenerated more than what the scans had shown him. He had to do a discectomy and remove the part causing trouble but instead of just on one side as he had thought it was on both sides of my disk. This disk is the L5-S1. The disk right above your tailbone. I stayed overnight in the hospital and was released the next day. To Damier's disapproval I am sure, I had been made to wear these awful white stockings on my legs that squeezed and irritated the crap out of me. A precaution so as not to get a blood clot in my legs. Those went out the minute I got home. I have been walking on my own since 2 hours after surgery.
I am now happy to say that I am pain free in my legs and back (other than where I was cut on of course) and am able to walk a short distance. I have learned to be careful with the meds they gave me. I think I gave my mom a heart attack the other day (Wednesday - 2 days post op). She helped me up the stairs and as I made it to the doorway in the kitchen I got extremely dizzy. Next thing I know my mom is kneeling over me on the floor yelling at me to wake up. I passed out. Word to the wise, don't take two pain pills before going to sleep and think you are going to get up and be fine. Especially if you haven't had anything to eat for a while.
I go back to the doctor on the 11th of April to be checked and make sure everything is going well. I feel great though and as of today have not had any pain medication at all. Not a single thing! I still can't bend forward very far but day by day I am getting back to normal. I can sit myself down and stand back up without help. I can't pick up my youngest daughter yet as I am not allowed to lift anything over the weight of a gallon of milk and she is about 3 gallons of milk worth of weight.
Thanks to all of you for your support, for those of you that gave me kind words before the operation and those of you that have kept in touch with me out of the buzz world. I am greatly appreciative of your kindness and well wishes. Much love to you all!
Lisa
