The healing process....

Hello everyone,

This post will be short and sweet and I will try to not let the narcotics take over my spelling...lol! I am home from the hospital and beginning to mend. I never anticipated the amount of pain and just sheer discomfort that I would have with this, but I am told that the surgery went very well from the dr's perspective. My incision is about 8 inches long, from top of my head down to middle of my neck, pretty swollen and bruised. The worst of it has been the muscle pains. I guess they had to move and cut a lot of muscle to get to the bones to do the surgery. I had a lot more muscle mass in my neck than the average person because I had built up muscle dealing withe the headaches and tension from the Chirai over the past years. I mainly hurt where the "halo"wholes are from where they anchored my head during surgery. I am on plenty of medicines though so I do get some relief.

I want to send out a HUGE Thank you to all of you who have sent MONEY (which has been so helpful at this time for bills!), FLOWERS, CARDS, and for those of making meals and bringing it nightly so we have one less thing to worry about it. It has all been so helpful. We also very much appreciate all of your prayers, the good Lord certainly saw me through this surgery. Thanks to all of you who spent time at the hospital during my surgery and my following days in the hospital. It meant a lot to me to have you there.

I am slowly mending, get stitches out next Monday, and will be starting neck therapy as well. As of right now I have VERy little movement of my neck in any direction. Pretty stiff and sore.

My family is doing great. Jeovany has been a wonderful help as has mom. Jazmyn is going home with mom and dad tonight because Ithink she is tired of me not being able to do a whole lot of anything with her. Then tomorrow night a dear friend of mine is going to take her for the night as well. Jazzy is overall doing okay with it though, just a litlemore emotional than normal.

I will try to update everyone again next week sometime. Until then, feel free to call anytime. Love you all and God Bless!!