Surgery again.....UGH!!

Since my wonderful golf trip to Eastern Washington, I have been busy modeling in a cancer fund raisier, meeting with the neurologist about my upcoming surgery and visiting my son and family in Washington DC.

I wore dressy cocktail dresses and lots of sparkly jewelry. I haven't looked this good in years. My handsome escort is the husband of a dear friend of mine. I was first down the runway in my gorgeous blue number and really hammed it up. It was a delightful evening and raised $140,000 for the cancer mentoring program in town.

With my neurosurgery scheduled for Nov 5, I was able to reschedule my visit with Jon and family and spent a beautiful sunny week with them walking all over the capital, visiting with nieces and their families, visiting the fabulous science museum in Baltimore and having a day with the two couples we had such fun with on the Russia trip, and just enjoying being with Dash and Finley, my adorable grandchildren. I returned home extremely tired just before Sandy hit. It was a great way to absorb their positive energy and not think about the pain I was in.

The pre-op visit with the neurologist made me a little more optimistic about this surgery. Although he will have to remove a good part of one side of my C6 vertebra and work around the spinal column and vertebral artery, he is not planning on having to do a fusion at this time. If all goes well, my activities will be restricted for about 6 weeks. But hopefully I will be out of pain and have a full range of motion and be able to go back to golf and pickleball.

BUT I will need all of your healing blue energy surrounding me and the neurosurgeon on Monday, Nov 5th as we proceed with yet another surgery. (My body is going to look like an op-art painting of scars!!)