February 24, 2009

Finally I feel I can post some good news. I have had less nerve pain for a couple of days. It hasn't lasted a whole day yet but at least there have been several hours in a row where the pain is quite a bit less. So I feel we are crossing the threshhold and going to start having better days and more healing. I'm hoping that Dr. Hansen says we can try to go down on the meds when we see him tomorrow. Even if it's just a little bit, that's ok. We have to start somewhere and it'll take quite a while because we won't be able to go down quickly. We did learn a lesson, though, and that is that I am not ready to use the hot tub yet. My surgical tissues must not be healed enough yet for the hot water. Dr. Hansen said we could try it and we did but then I had really bad increased pain over the night and for most of the day. We had to increase the meds and get it under control and now things are back to where they were so we'll just wait a little longer for those tissues to heal before we try hot water. The cold packs still work wonders so we'll stick with that. Still thanking everyone for your prayers - I know they are what's helping. We are so hopeful that we are going to get much better after this surgery heals. I can stand upright now and that is a big plus. So please keep praying because, even though we've got a long ways to go, it's what is getting things going in the right direction. JAN