Went Away To be Fused.. Got Back On Christmas Eve.

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Hello Group,

Hope you all are doing as well as can be expected. We left for NY on Dec. 2

and returned on Dec. 24. As I said before. I was soooo glad to be home for

Christmas. Hope you all had a good one.

We were so fortunate to be able to stay at the Variety House. We saw some

familiar faces from our trip in Oct. and met some new friends. There as well as

in th e hospital.

Surgery went well I guess.The person who went with me wasn't in the waiting

room when surgery was over so no Dr. could talk to anyone.

It wasn't as terrible as I thought it would be. I had a few set backs. I got

Meningitis and an abscess/collection of fluid in my lower neck. So I was put on

steroids and antibiotics.

It really wasn't until Dr.B took a needle and withdrew 4cc of blood and blood

clot from my neck that I really started to feel better. I have a hereditary

blood disease that causes my blood to clot easily. I was in the hospital for

about 14 days.

My friend who came with me went AWAL because I had to stay longer than we

expected. So she left. That made things hard for me but I owe a huge thanks to

Dennis and others at the VH who were a great help to me. Like Dave and ,

as well as and .

Glenda and her husband too. BTW Glenda if your reading this I haven't forgotten

about the ice pack holder. I'll get in touch with you.

There 's a Pastor from a church I go to when I'm in NY. He got a couple from

his church to get me to the airport. The wife was a nurse and they were so nice

and helpful to me. It's too bad NY seems to have such a bad rap. My experience

has been that if you really need help New Yorkers really do have a heart of

gold.

I'm healing well as far as I can tell. Do I see any improvements? I'd have to

say ,yes. Enough that I'm glad I did it? So far, yes.

My question for those who are Fused. Have any of you had trouble holding up

your head? Does it get better? When? I know we're all different just a

general idea will help.

That's all for now.

Take Care,

Regina

ACM1 11mm SM C6-T1

Decompressed Oct. 15, 2001

TC Surgery @ TCI Oct. 4, 2007

Fused @ TCI Dec. 5, 2007

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