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Fri, 14 Oct 2005
Backsurgery
Blogging again. it took a while to get my website running in the new place I moved to. First the DNS was somewhere I didn't remember anymore and of course the "new" NAT box gave some effort to make everything work again.. Anyway.
After the move, on Friday September 2nd, I was in shower and grasping a bar of soap and the hell broke loose. It was like stabbing with blowing daggers to my back. I could not move. I grabbed to the walls and forced myself to the bed taking my cell phone on the way. Emphasis on the word forced, since the pain was unbearable. Few painkillers and quick review of what happened. I was naked in the bed, could only roll without terrible pain - better stay in one place for few moments and let the painkillers kick in.
After staying still for an hour, the pain was still there. So i called my boss, I'll be late and took more painkillers and a nap. Same problem after an hour, more painkillers and repeat few times. After 3 or 4 hours, i was able to get up and put shorts on. Only problem seemed to be that my ass was totally numb. Maybe the painkillers (1200mg of ibuprofein)...
So I went to spa to get the numbness away. I thought it was just a muscle tension and I ha few friends coming to visit.
On Saturday, I noticed I had not urinated for more than 12 hours, so I asked my roommate to drop me to urgent care. Outcome: 1000cc of urine out and catherer for weekend. And some antibiotics and painkillers. Nice. Bag of urine strap to leg.
On Monday, the catherer was taken away and assumption was still that some muscles were a BIT tight. And I was able to pee. At least a little. So I waited until Tuesday and went to my doctor. She sent me to a neurologist, who had a hunch what might be going on, so he did some tests on Wednesday.
On Thursday I went to hear the results: RX to hospital, right away. Surgery in the evening. Nice. Crap. So I drove back home, gathered few things and magazines and took a cab to the hospital.
After being about 8 hours in, the surgery started around 9 and 10pm. Next thing after smelling some stuff going to my veins was a shearing pain in my back and the roof of the recovery room. And nurse asking if I need something. Painkillers and water plese... So she shot me with morphine. Few times. Not enough to get high, but enough to get rid of the pain. Water I got later when back in my room.
So.. 12 hours after surgery I felt a lot better. Biggest issue was the scar in my back, which was itching, so I got up and went for a walk. nurses were totally surprised.. You're walking?!? :-)
Later I learned from the doctor that they took a disk away between vertebra L4 and L5. There had been a bad nerve pinch causing numbness and loss of control of bladder and bowl. Recovery estimate: 1 to 9 months..
So here I am. 1 month after surgery learning to poo and pee. Or actually both work, but not as sensitively as I could hope. It is both or nothing, which is a bit rough for my ass. Sometimes things go as they used to and doing things separately works, but lately I haven't counted in that. Too messy.
Good news is that I managed to get rid of 35 lbs. And going to continue the trend. Maybe not at same rate, but something around 2-4 lbs / week should be realistic. Just eat half of what I used to.
More later, time to go potty-training again...