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so wednesday Turc is having an operation on his spine.

He's getting his L5-S1 fused and will be laid up in hospital for 2 days at least

Wish him well! I'm worried as hell, but it's just me being silly I'm sure.

He insists on taking his laptop, even though I'm sure he'll be asleep most of the time afterwards. I'll try to keep you guys up to date.

I'll probably call you afterwards at some point, Khary. I have a feeling I'll need to talk to friends at some point. :p You know how worried I get.

hope everything goes smoothly. i wish you both the best

Hey Lil,

Give the big lug my best wishes... All will be fine..

Hope to see you guys on line sometime soon..

Cheers
Sooth

I'll have my phone on all day, Lil. And Phisto will be with us, if you want to talk with him, too.

Heya Lil & Turc,

Hope it all goes very well! We'll be thinking about you guys!

Hugs,

best of luck and hope to see him doing backflips asap!

all my fingers crossed for you, except my 2 broken ones.

Good Lord, I hate to hear that, Hope everything goes well for him though. Will be thinking about ya'll.

Hope everything goes well for Chad. I send best wishes for his speedy recovery.

best wishes there.... lets hope he better by the time i get there. if he isnt.. no biggie as i can fetch the beer for him.

Best wishes on the operation!!!!

Best wishes Chad....Naomi your a rock....it will all go well.......

<3

update:

surgery went well, according to the doctor, but Chad's been in excruciating pain since yesterday.

The first day he was ok, was on morphine drip, ate a meal, and even got up and walked a couple laps around the nurse's station with a walker and some assistance.

Yesterday morning they took him off of IV and the drip, and put him on Loritab 10's. Those made him nauseous so they gave him some meds for nausea, but still he didn't eat all day but one or two crackers. He had a 101.3 fever for a while so they made him to sit up straight in a chair for a while to force him to breathe deeper and handled that with some Tylenol. After a while of suffering, they switched him over to Mepergan and Flexoril (pain and muscle relaxers) to ease the nausea but so far it hasn't worked. Doc added Valium to help him sleep but that didn't do much good either.

He and I were up all night, he couldn't sleep for more than a few minutes at a time and neither could I. Around 4am the nurse gave him a shot and that knocked him out for a couple hours and I slept a little. I was up around 7 helping him up to the bathroom, then his mom showed up and I headed home after a bit to let the dog out.

All in all, I think he's improving, but he doesn't think so. He was supposed to come home today, but the way he's feeling it looks like he'll stay another night. They won't let him go unless he can get around a bit better and his pain is managed. Luckily no sign of fever today so far.

Anyway, keep the well wishes coming. I really had no idea, and neither did he, that this would be so hard. It's killing me to see him hurt so badly.

Bish, I know Chad would be thrilled to have his very own Aussie butler to fetch beer (since we never trained the dog to do it) so still can't wait to see ya! I'm sure he will be feeilng a lot better in a couple weeks.

Sorry to hear the recovery is so harsh... I know when my cousin had her jaw reconstructed and they took that morphine drip away she was in hell. I hope Chad gets ta feelin atleast a little better soon, and yeah Loritab 10s can be pretty harsh especially on the stomach. Tell him me and Gwen hope he starts turning around for the better.

yup.. i can play butler.. but i not doing what i saw the butler had to do on that video i had in the room in vegas!

aw come on... would ya do it if I ask real nice??

Chad's home as of today, thanks for all the support guys If he wakes up tonight and is coherent I'll be sure to let him know.