Tomorrow morning at 5:30am, Larry & I will be checking into the Texas Spine & Joint Hospital in Tyler. (If you'd like to see the place, the website is: http://www.tsjh.org/. At about 8:00am, he will have surgery. He will be there for 2-3 days before coming home.
We are incredibly blessed in that we have a friend coming here to spend the night tonight so that she'll be here in the morning to wake up the kids & get them off to school. THANK YOU CINDY!! We have friends from church coming to pray with us before the surgery. We have friends from church bringing meals over after it's over. Wow....we're blessed.
For those of you who don't know the details of this, here ya go. Larry broke his back when he was 13. Ever since he's lived with all sorts of back problems (spasms, severe pain in the break area, etc.). About a year ago, he aggrivated it somehow (we still really don't know what happened) & he's been taking pain med's ever since. We found out a few weeks ago that he has a tear in one of the discs. Every time he strains or stretches the wrong way, the fluid in the disc is squeezed out & causes a muscle spasm. This surgery will remove that disc & replace it with a titanium cage filled with his own blood & marrow, which will in time harden, creating a new bone & fusing the vertabra above & below it together permanently. (There will also be some screws in there holding the cage in place.) We are really anxious to get this over & done with!!
Please say a prayer for us. If you don't hear from me (on the journal) for a few days, this is why!
2 comments:
Dear lord please be with this family . watch over the surgeons hands and help them repair the problem. In your name Amen
Deb
Larry & Liz-
We love you and are praying that every minute of this surgery goes perfectly and as planned. Know that you have a Church family who loves and supports you! If you need anything, let us know!
Get well soon!
In His Love--
Pastors, Office staff, and your Rose Heights Family
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