I'll do my best as well...
Anyhow Im alive.
Just wont be doing much for a while.
Well..they pulled out a bunch of crap from my herniated L5 , the doc said he hadnt seen one as big as mine in over 10,000 operations, thats why he got me in so fast. That worries me some.
Anyhow, the operation seems successful, I can feel my legs now without any discomfort. Altho my back hurts like hell now, I can walk and stand straight but bending and sitting and gettting up is a problem,so is sleeping.
I dont know if they wrapped the nerve yet and probably wont know until after its all done, maybe in a year I'll know. Its that studygroup thing.
The kids are taking care of me, I have a bell I can ring when I need help. Seems my son Charlie's girlfriend can cook. Thats good.
Anyhow, I went into surgery at 11am thursday but they were concerned about my high blood pressure.(something else I'll have to deal with after this), It seems they dont like to put anyone under with HBP. So they had to drug me some more to control it.I got out of surgery at about 2pm and was aware at about 3pm. They had me on Dilaudid which I could administor myself (push a button) every 8min. but I didnt like it so was only doing it once every hour, the nurses checked on me every hour and scoulded me on not using it enough,,so During the night (2am or so) I finaly caved in and did it like they wanted me to but it made me so sick, but the pain was barible. Im not sure how many CC's it was that I used.but I do remember looking at it a few times to see if the plunger had moved so Im guessing about 40 units worth out of 20cc I dont know but the syringe was about 1" in diameter. Man that stuff was nasty.I couldnt move until friday morning. when I did get up everything I ate the nite before evacuated.I was dizzy for about 12hrs afterwards.
I called Maxy at 9:30am to come and get me as they were discharging me in about an hour..she couldnt find the hospitol..and didnt call, so after I was outside waiting I called and found she was lost..after two more direction calls she finally made it, but at the wrong entrance ..so another half hour wasted there..I was about to pull my hair out then she finally got directions to the correct place..meanwhile, I got to meet a few people going in and out of the hospitol including the GM. ah fun times.
I found out later she drove way out of the way down from her house (about 120 miles out of the way)., argh.
The drive home was interesting as well., no a/c in her car and it was very Hot out plus I was still drugged., and the car would stall..she didnt bother to tell me how bad the car was running. She didnt like driving my car, cause the pedal is too responsive.
I am finally home and have connected the laptop at the side of the couch where I can rest..the waterbed is out of the question as far as comfort is concerned. motion sickness too.
The followup nurse just left the house a while ago to check me out seems im ok for now..
I made it thru ok,,just gotta wait and see how it goes from here.
It hurts like Hell. Glad to see your up and about Fred.
Regards
Chuck
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If need be, I'd be down to come pick you up for the event. I should be able to go, but will need to swap a day or so with someone at work. I have Sundays and Mondays off right now, but my department may be doing a massive schedule everhaul... 
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