“How’s Darby?” “What time is it?” I opened my eyes to look at the clock. 6:58. I’d overslept. Three and a half hours until the MRI. “Please, God, let it be a disc (and not Cancer).” “I hope she knows I love her.” “I hope she’s not in pain right now.” “She’s in good hands, they’re taking care of her.” “She’ll be fine.” “They said they’d call you after the MRI.” “Just relax.”
Darby stayed over night at the hospital last night so they could keep her pain under control. She went in for her MRI this morning at 10:30. As Anna told me would happen, I got a call from the Doctor around 11:00 confirming that Darby did in fact have a slipped disc and in her words “It’s pretty impressive.” She said she is amazed Darby is doing as well as she is. They were taking her directly into surgery and I should hear in about two and a half to three hours as to how it went. Like clockwork, about 3 hours later I got another call. She was in recovery and doing well. They had cleaned everything out and released the pressure but had also found blood. She said that something had caused it to hemorrhage within the past day or so which is most likely why things had changed for the worse. But it’s done. All clean, looks good and the surgery went well.
Darby will be hanging out at the hospital a couple more days. She’ll be under 24 hour observation to monitor her pain and progress and begin her recovery. The Doctor said that she needs to show signs of improvement and start taking “baby steps” before she’ll be able to come home. Once home it will be weeks before she’ll be walking again and months before she’s totally healed.
So we have a long road ahead of us, but at last I can breathe a sigh of relief. We’ve made it over the first hurdle. Atta girl!
Kate
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