I am SOOO Sorry!! I am OK!!

I was faithfully keeping up with my scoliosis blog, and I was scheduled to have my surgery on January 15th, and then BAM!!!! No one hears from me! I just want to apologize about that. I was laying in bed the other night thinking that if anyone was researching scoliosis surgery and came across my blog talking about the surgery, they might've think that I died during surgery or something! Since there were no updates or anything on my situation. I don't have internet access at my house anymore due to the economy busting, and my husbands job is in the oil field and the bottom fell through, and well, the internet was one of the first things to go. So anyways, I am here to tell you that I am alive and well. :D

I did have my surgery on January 15th at the Baylor Medical Center in Plano, Texas...the surgery was done by Alexis Shelokov and the results were GREAT. I have before and after pictures of my x-rays but I don't have them online yet. I had double major curves of 65 and 63 degrees, and I am so proud to say that NOW my spine is STRAIGHT. Well not 100% straight, but STRAIGHT to me lol. It amazes me still to look at the before x-rays compared to the after ones. And my rib hump that I hated so much? Its GONE!! Yay!!! My hips are aligned, my clothes fit better, my tank tops look normal, I can breathe better, sleep better, everything! I am almost 3 months out, but still, if I had it to do over, I would.



I am still in my brace, I wear it when I drive, and when I go places, and when I do light chores at the house...it does attract attention and nearly everytime I go somewhere, without fail, someone asks me "What happened?", "Did you break your back?", "Were you in a car accident?"...I tell my story and go on...I will be so glad when the brace comes off though. I am also doing a bone growth stimulator treatment every night at 10 PM. That will be for nine months and I am only 21 days into the whole deal. I kinda forgot about it once I got home and was recovering and only barely started it in mid-March. I also am doing physical therapy three times a week and that is going good.

I still have pain, but its mostly at the end of the day after I have done too much. But its a different pain, as soon as I had the surgery, I could tell that the scoliosis pain was gone! I didn't feel as scrunched up. I am off of the Dilaudid and just take Lortab in the mornings and at bedtime. I still have a lot of people helping me with the kids and stuff, and my grandmother comes over and helps me with laundry and cleaning up. I stayed with my grandparents for a month and a half after the surgery, they totally took care of everything, me included, and then once I felt I was able, I went home. My husband is a huge help and everything is going well. I've started going back to church and gotten my faith back on track.

I hope to have the internet back at my house soon, so therefore I can't check for comments or email until then, but if you want to email me, my email is mobley925@gmail.com I can't guaruntee when I can answer back, but I will eventually. Thanks so much for reading and I am so sorry I didn't update sooner!