Well guy's I made it back from surgery alive!!!! I have to say that there for a minute I was pretty nervous about the whole deal! My surgeon, who was absolutely amazing scared me a bit right befor going under the knife...let's just say that as I was stepping onto the little surgery table and starting to feel like I had about 10 shots of Petron' tequila, my sweet little Dr. says to me "So Torrie are you ready to go?!" I looked at him with tears in my eyes ( I was crying all morning because I was so scared!) and said "I guess as ready as I will ever be, just please promise me that I won't wake up paralyzed because of a mistake." Ok so what words do you think came out of his mouth after that? ...this is what he said...."Honey being paralyzed is the least of your worries with a surgery like this! You have a lot of major organs just on the other side of where I am working and if I just happen to accidently puncture any of them you could bleed to death easily!" so of course I asked him..."well what if that happens? I mean what can you do to help me?" He replied with " Well, honey I will just have to cut you open all the way across your stomach and work hard to fix the problem and stop the bleeding....but you will end up with a pretty large scar across your stomach!"
Ok so call me crazy but I was inches away from taking off for the parking lot just at that moment! Instead I prefered to pray the hardest I have ever prayed that everything goes fine and dandy! The surgery did take a little longer than usual so of course when I woke up at 8pm the first thing I did after looking at the clock was feel for a cut across my tummy...and luckily everything went great. Needless to say, I am so very thankful that I got such a wonderful Dr. that went above and beyond. I am slowly starting to walk better and feel like my old self again...And just so you guy's can see how absolutely horrible I can look, I decided to show you a couple pics of me after surgery in the hospital without of stitch of makeup on....now that's love if you can get past that sight!
Anyway, I just wanted to fill ya'all in on how the back surgery went and let you know I made it.....leaving for Mexico on Thursday!...I will show you pics from that as well. (and hopefully I will look a tad better in those!)
Love you all! -Torrie