Before and afters!

Before I was at 75 degrees and not I'm at 29! Again I have to say it kudos, Baylor!
The third picture is a side view. How scary do those screws looks!?

Look at the hour glass.

I'm like Wolverine...

We both heal fast and our bones are filled with adamantium. Okay so my bones are not filled with adamantium but I do have a decent amount of hardware in and around my spine.

Happy mediums.

It’s so hard to find how much I can actually do in one day. If I do to much I hurt the next day, and if I do to little I’m stiff. So it has been a task I've been working on. I’m doing so well though, I can’t get over I had a spinal fusion 3 weeks ago and I was able to walk the next day!
I worry myself a lot if I accidentally twist my body or bend to much, I need to keep reminding myself it is natural instinct to bend and twist and I’m sure the doctors know mistakes will be made and they have already accounted for that.
I have a love hate relationship with my meds, I love them because it takes away the pain I hate them because they make me stupid and weird. I have no appetite but I have to eat or the meds make me sick.
Enough complaining. God is great and he is helping me heal every day. I get mad at my self when I’m in pain and my first instinct is to think of the meds and not pray! I’ve been reminding myself daily pray first pray always!

I hope you are all still praying for my recovery thank you.

Just incase you missed it.

I'm obsessed!

Bad morning.

I missed my 3 am meds this morning and I woke up at 6 in extreme pain. It was horrible and I was worried that I wouldn’t be able to take anything until 9. I knew I had the dilaudid and I can take that but to be honest with you dilaudid does not do it for me, which is weird because I hear it is highly addictive, but I was praying it would bring me down in my pain level at least to a 6. Luckily my Mommy in law took charge like she always does and gave me my hydro condone which I will have to skip at 9 but I’ll still have the valium and we will work our way back into our schedule. I hate being so dependent on these medicines and I hope that it doesn’t last long. I thought I was doing so great with my recovery but experiencing it without being medicated this morning really depressed me, I’m so scared of addiction, I’m scared of dependency, and I’m scared that this pain will be with me for ever. I know I’m just bringing myself down, when I was in the hospital I didn’t think I would ever be able to walk and I did so I just need to give it time.