14 Days and Counting!!

It is now only 14 days until I get operated on my spine. I can't wait. Although this seems seriously terrifying; both financially; my neurosurgeon charges $3580.05 and the rebate in $1,580.05 and that doesn't begin to count the same for the anesthetist and the excess I pay for the hospital... But I can't wait.

It will be so nice to walk normally! Not having to cringe; walk gingerly; walk like I have a stick up my ass! Normal! Yay!! I can't wait...

Today I had to do a lot of running around for the hospital (figuratively!); give blood and do an ECG and fill out the forms online! And I had to get a roadworthy on my car and run around and get it so my girlfriends daughter could come and pick it up (and it looks fab the car! Makes me think I should have kept it!!)

And I did all that in between working the day!

Roll on now I say, because it is the end of the work week and it is Easter! So - have a happy Easter everyone!

OH let's do a bit of surgery on your back!

Well here we go again! I'm going for surgery! Not my brain, or my hips - but my spine. It sounds like fun! (yes... that was sarcasm!) They are going to open me up, and then 2 or 3 bits from the bottom of my spine, they're going to cut the bone out so it doesn't impeach on my spinal column - and I can't wait! (that wasn't sarcasm)

But I'm sick of it!

I'm sick of it hurting all the time. I'm sick of the steroids! I'm sick of not being able to walk; of being a fat cow. So 16 days... and everything will be different! 

Bring it on! Oh God! Bring. It. On.

A Week... In My life

You guessed it. This will be the shortest blog ever  :)

We worked all week... I limped around a lot. Why? Well my Neuro suggested that stretching or bending could increase the size of the disc spaces in my spine, there by alleviating the strangulation of my spinal column. I mean it made sense; at the supermarket I bend over and lean on the trolley, not realising that was what I was doing!  Anyway, it didn't work. I did it, but I think something got jammed somewhere because now I can barely walk and that comes with a lot of sweat and swearing.

See! Down the bottom they don't look right!

It is Sunday today; only five more days until I see my Neuro again and he'll decide if it is Spinal Stenosis or not after checking out the MRI scans. If it is; God... I could kiss him (lucky he is very good looking and young!) but even if he was old and ugly, having an answer after years of pain will be astonishing!

Now I know he isn't going to whip out a scalpel and operate straight away but I'm going to vote for it as soon as possible. It no point trying me on meds. I've tried them all! Most I'm intolerant to, some I'm downright allergic too.

Last day of the mini break...

Mini breaks are so good at the start of them; not so good at the finish line.  It's 41 degrees celcius here again today. 3 days of 40+ and I'm hiding in my house, air conditioner blasting - like a vampire. I can't let the sun touch me, because it is like being submerged in battery acid.

We went out for breakfast and it was nice under cover, but as soon as I went in the sunlight; I wondered how in the hell I had managed to get out at all. And of course, I dropped the Squeeze and his kid off to go swimming at Eastern Beach, so that means I've got to go back out in the hideous heat to get them! The Squeeze magnanimously said "oh we'll walk home!" but one look at the horror on the kid's face and I knew there was no way they were going to walk home.  The Squeeze sometimes he forgets he's 69 years old I think...

So I'm sitting at home, in front of the air conditioner, blogging while they are doing a swim. It would have been nice, but I think of my legs (read I'm almost a cripple) so getting in and out of the water would be a nightmare. I'd rather stay home!

I'm counting down the days until my appointment with my neurosurgeon. Please let him have the answer because I'm damned sick of being an invalid. 11 days... then if I'm right, or rather he is, I'll have to have another damned operation (this time on my spine), but at least I'll be normal then! Just one of the plebs!

A day of relaxation...

It's too hot to do anything else other than relax. We could do television but its only 10am. I've cleaned up so my day, in effect, is over until 3pm. Then I have to pick up my mother and my other son and his fiance come over for roast lamb. Okay; a roast in this incredible heat probably wasn't a great idea... I think we might do it Greek and then just do a huge souvalaki mix... which would be better than a sit down roast.

A couple of weeks ago we had the floorboards done. They look fabulous! But my God... the work involved. I'm never doing it again. We had to move everything out of the house, including pictures off the wall! And the dust!!  But my oldest boy did it and he had to sand the whole house back to the original colour and then paint it.

But the dust! Last night the Moodle brought a ladder in and climbed up because the air conditioner was making a funny noise (and I thought please God... Don't take my air conditioner!) and it was full of floor dust!!!

Now I may just lay on them to keep cool; or would if I could get down and then up again!