For 11 months now, I have been in a lot of pain. Since my last back surgery in 2007, my degenerative disc disease has been creeping up my spine to the point where my next 2 vertebrae (L3, L4) no longer had any cushion between them - I had bone rubbing on bone (no wonder it hurt!!)
I had to wait until this past October to see Dr. Bailey, my orthopaedic surgeon (aren't I lucky that I was already 1 of his patients - new patients at the time were having to wait until next summer to get an appointment). Silly man asked if I wanted him to fix the problem - a no brainer as far as I was concerned. The dear man told me that his wait for surgery was about 1 year, however, because He hadf operated on me previously, I would only have to wait about 6 months. On top of that, we would only receive 2 - 4 weeks notice prior to my surgery.
So...... here I am thinking that I probably have 3 - 4 months left to wait for my surgery when my phone rings this past Monday morning. It is Dr. Bailey's office. They have had a cancellation - would I like it. I didn't care when it was, the answer was YES!!! Imagine my surprise - the date is this Friday - 27 January.
So, I am madly scrambling to get everything in order before Friday. Graham was only able to give his company a few days notice (and because of that only feels that he can take 1 week off). I'm not quite sure how I'm going to manage the second week after surgery - hope that I'm mobile enough to be on my own!! But, the bottom line here - I should be back at work by the time that I originally expected my surgery.
