Is that the same kind of surgery you had before, Steph?
Really similar, except when I had it done for my lumbar vertebrae, they didn't put in a spacer thingie to prevent the narrowing from reoccurring. I don't know if they were doing that in 2003.
The only thing I really dislike is I'll have to wear a neck brace for at least 2 weeks, and that's going to be super annoying. But my brother wisely said "You'll be stoned on pain meds and rewatching Moon Knight and that alien show you like,* so that'll take your attention off the neck brace." Which, fair point.
*(He forgot about the gay hockey show. And maybe I'll do my annual pre-Christmas Hawkeye rewatch early.)
I don't know whether to hope you get put on a billboard again or not...the plan for coping with the neck brace sounds excellent!
The alien show is Roswell, right?
I didn't get a spacer put in when I had surgery in 2017.
I don't know whether to hope you get put on a billboard again or not...
If anyone deserves to be on a billboard, it's Tim. His recovery from that surgery—and the massive amount of curvature/structural correction the surgeons were able to do—was rock star caliber. I just have a cranky neck that needs some stabbing to get it to fall in line.
The alien show is Roswell, right?
Yes, and I know he knows its name; he just likes to be a dick. Plus it's his actual birthday* today, so he has free rein to be even more of a dick.
*My little brother is fucking 50 today. Nothing makes me feel older. My own age doesn't actually make me feel as old as my baby brother turning half a century. Jesus.
I wish I was stoned on pain meds and watching Roswell.
I am not prepared for my brother to turn 50, which is thankfully a ways off.
Happy actual birthday to your brother, Tep, although it is pretty rude of him to go and turn 50. When my little sister turned 50 she kept it quiet.
OK, I have made appointments for a flu shot and to get my car's oil changed. Way less than I hoped to accomplish today, but not nothing.
If anyone deserves to be on a billboard, it's Tim. His recovery from that surgery—and the massive amount of curvature/structural correction the surgeons were able to do—was rock star caliber.
I remember the x-rays. It was quite the project. Much surgery ~ma to you.
When my brother turned 70 a year ago all 4 of us were in our 70s. We all remembered our mom's horror when all 4 of her kids were in our 60s. We shall see if the 3 remaining are all in our 80s together. I'm the youngest now.
Also, being buzzed and watching Roswell seems like an excellent plan to me.
