The Monday after Easter, think that’s the 25th, Doreen gets to spent a restful day in downtown LaCrosse, WI. Perhaps in the late morning or early afternoon (who knows) she will check into the chic and legendary Gunnderson House of Pital. There she will lulled to sleep with the latest in anesthesia for her tranquil time in the laboratory of a young Dr. Frankenstein (perhaps I have the name wrong.) There, the young doctor of much experience in these endeavors will conduct a Laminectomy; not quite as pleasing as Beethoven’s 5th Symphony, but hopefully with a longer lasting pleasurable quality. The reason for this sojourn is to correct a spinal stinosis. Now before you all run off to your medical notebooks this means she has a bone spur pinching a nerve in one of her lower vertebrae. Dr. Kildare (that’s not right either) will go in and whittle away at the extra bone giving the said nerve more room to play about and hopefully Doreen as well. When she wakes up, we’ll go home. That last line seems a bit anticlimactic doesn’t it.
At any rate that will be our Monday outing. This was all planned before we left for Florida and could have even been done then, but we all like to wrap our minds around things first. It seems a pretty straight forward process that Dr. Livingstone (nope that’s not it either) has done millions and billions of these procedures. Yesterday when we were making final arrangements for her day out another doctor, I think his name was Igor, talking about ignoring it, starting over, taking another MRI and generally farting around ~ we don’t have the slightest idea what his role at the hospital is or was aside from being irksome. Perhaps he was from Canada where he explained they don’t move so fast, performing turtleeconomies. Dr. Strangelove (nope) then tossed him out of the room. Aside from that Monday will range from 51 to 58 degrees with a 40% change of rain.
The recovery I think goes quickly. She won’t be able to lift more than ten pounds for a few days, (when has she…Hugh!) By the end of the week I expect she’ll be pumping iron at out new gym, and by the end of the month doing handsprings up the hill behind our house. Phones and Skype will be at obeisance in the Drennan household for general palaver.
Dr. Bones…Dr. Rupelstiltskin…Dr. Welby…Dr. Scorsby…Dr. Devorchac…Dr. Scholl…Dr. Pepper…Dr. Ducky…Dr. … oh whatever, think it begins with W.
His name is Dr. Davis
ReplyDelete