Hi all, Corri here. I'll be letting you all know how Abby is doing as she starts recovery. For those of you who don't know, today, May 19 2011, Abby had a Lumbar Disectamey as a solution to the herniated disk in her back. A pretty big surgery for such a young girl. After going into surgery at 11:50 a.m. she came out at 1:45 p.m., and went into recovery for an hour. Dad was here to greet her when she came out, I unfortunately had to go to school. Over the course of the day she had many visitors to keep her company and lift her spirits. She has a incision about five inches long on her lower back. The biggest excitement after the procedure is her ability to feel her left foot and there is no pain in her left leg. We thought that day may never come after the five months of waiting. There is still pain in her back, as to be expected. She received more medicine to help about ten minutes ago, and she is drifting off to sleep.
When I arrived today, around 9 p.m., for the first time in a long, and I mean LONG time, Abby said to me, "This is going to make me better". This makes me confident that God sent us to surgery for a reason, he gave us the best, most skilled doctor we could have asked for. Finally, Abby can see the light at the end of this tunnel, though she has a very long road ahead of her, with help from family, friends, and God of course, she will make it and be back to her normal self by next year.
Please continue to include Ab in your prayers, recovery is going to be challenging.
Thanks, Corrigan (a.k.a the baby)
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