I just called my friend, Kay. (She’s the friend who fell and broke a bone in her back recently.) I talked to her husband first, and then he gave the phone to Kay.
She finally was approved to have “vertebroplasty.” Vertebroplasty is a procedure in which a special cement is injected into a fractured vertebra — with the goal of relieving your spinal pain and restoring your mobility.
When I went to see her recently, she was in pretty bad shape. She had had the procedure and initially felt better, but was having a hard time. She was in pain, she was disoriented, had word retrieval problems, and her husband said she had been hallucinating. He fixed food for her, but she would only eat a bite or two. I was worried that she was suffering some kind of complication.
I just talked to Bud, and then Kay.
She is feeling a whole LOT better! Her voice sounds normal – for the first time since she fell. She is COOKING dinner for them tonight! She isn’t hurting! She feels HUNGRY!
WOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOO!
I’m so relieved. We are in celebration mode.
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