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We are finally at home - got her Friday night. It was a tough trip in the car but so worth it not to be in the hospital or a hotel room. While in the Hotel, I got a bladder infection, which sure didn't help matters much. We have been so grateful for all the messages and words of encouragement. They have really helped. The pain has still been very sever, even with the pain medication and muscle relaxants, expecially in my legs. But the doctor said not to worry about it too much yet because he had to work around the nerves and tissue surrounding the nerves and make more room for them to flow easier where they were meant to go. Also, he told us he tought there was spinal fluid leakage that was putting pressure on my spine and if he got in there and it was a problem, he would take care of it. He said it was a problem and there was pressure so he took care of the leakage. He said I now have much more of the correct curvature to my spine so I should see relief from that. He had to cut wedges into the lowest facet joints (I now longer have joints there now) and packe them with bone growth material and spacer so that it would push me back into the right spinal curvature. He removed the disk and put spacers and bone growth material in there. Then he removed the old hardward and put in new hardward from the top of the old fusion all the way through the new fusion. He said he thought my bone was strong enough that he didn't have to go all the way down to putting screws in the pelvis so it's not as low as we were expecting. Now I'm on the road to healing and I know it will be a long road. But I can't thank you all so very much for your faithful prayers - please don't quit - I still need you!! Some day I will be able to do the same for you. We have had prayers all the way from Sioux Falls to Florida to California to Montana to Wyoming (and who kows where else). It has been amazing. Thanks you, thank you, thank you. God Bless each and every one of you. JAN