Hello everyone! I can't believe, after all these months, my surgery date of August 5th is so close now. Even though I know this is the best thing for me and I know I will be fine, it's still hard, because I also know it will be the biggest challenge, so far, of my life. I'm sitting here right now in relatively zero pain. How much longer can I say that? I really do have pain on a daily basis, just have learned to live with it and adjust. My curve is advancing pretty quickly, up to about 75* last November. I'm 54 and just don't want to be where I can't play with my grandkids or maybe not even walk in another 10 years or so. And that is the real reason I am having this done.
I do have a positive outlook and I push myself to do my best. I had the pulmonary function test, echo stress cardiogram and myelogram in the last 2 weeks and came through with flying colors, despite my anxiety before that myelogram! (It wasn't bad at all.)
I don't write often, but I read everyone's posts often and it does help so much. I know there will many bumps, but knowing others have made it and even came out better keeps me going. Even though you are really strangers to me, I feel I know you because no one else could possibly understand the full extent of all of this. Please keep me in your thoughts. I am certainly thinking of all of us, no matter where you are in this journey.
Thanks for listening!
I do have a positive outlook and I push myself to do my best. I had the pulmonary function test, echo stress cardiogram and myelogram in the last 2 weeks and came through with flying colors, despite my anxiety before that myelogram! (It wasn't bad at all.)
I don't write often, but I read everyone's posts often and it does help so much. I know there will many bumps, but knowing others have made it and even came out better keeps me going. Even though you are really strangers to me, I feel I know you because no one else could possibly understand the full extent of all of this. Please keep me in your thoughts. I am certainly thinking of all of us, no matter where you are in this journey.
Thanks for listening!
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