First Follow Up after second surgery

No matter how dark the night, somehow the sun rises once again and all shadows are chased away. David Matthew

Hello again,

I saw this quote recently and thought it was the perfect way to start this blog entry. I feel it explains alot of what I have gone through emotionally and physically. Finally for the first time in a long time I felt that I was sort of seeing the sun peeking just over the horizon so to speak. Before this appointment, I was quite worried about what might happen after my experience with the previous surgery. I wasn't quite sure if it would be good or bad news and I was still in a fair bit of pain from the surgery to really know if there was any pain that shouldn't have been there. This appointment was on September 2,08 and it went like the first appointment after the first surgery should have gone. The xray was taken and my specialist looked at it and let me know that everything looked good and there were no problems. The one thing that was different this time around was that the steri strips still had not come off and were stuck to my skin like they had been applied with crazy glue. With the first surgery, the steri strips were already starting to peel off when I arrived home. But my specialist assured me that was fine and they would come off eventually. In the end (about a month later) my mom helped me peel them off when the skin under the steri strips was really starting to itch. Like I said at the beginning of this entry, things were starting to look up. I noticed almost right off after the surgery that I wasn't feeling the rod moving any more and the recovery process started that much sooner I think. This gave me hope that I could finally get through this whole thing and get my life back. At this point there was still a fair bit of recovery to get through but I could see that there was finally going to be an end to it and things would get better.