My Momma's Surgery

For those of you that don't know, my mother had surgery yesterday. She has had problems with her left shoulder since I was 5 and we got in a car wreck. She messed up her shoulder pretty bad, had to have surgery on it. Recently though, it has been hurting her terrible. She is in tears most of the day from the pain. Her left thumb and first finger were also numb constantly. The doctors told her she had a bulging disk pressing a nerve that was causing the pain, or something like that.

Anyway, they went in yesterday and put in a cadaver bone and cleaned some stuff up in there. They went in through the front of her neck. The surgeon came out afterward and showed my dad and I pictures of the x-rays with the new bone and the screws in her neck.

Today, she is tired, but her fingers are no longer numb from what she can tell. That is a great sign. She isn't in much pain, just sore from how they had her laying on the surgery table (it was a 3 hour surgery).

My beautiful momma, waiting to go into surgery.

The staff here at Oklahoma Spine Hospital has been awesome. Incredibly friendly. AND I took some pictures yesterday before she went in. :)

She has tiny veins, so this was a pain to get in.

My concerned dad.

Her chart.

Again, concerned Dad. 

She is doing great. Should be out tonight or tomorrow. Hopefully this surgery will provide the relief they are saying it should. Thank you for all your thoughts and prayers!

UPDATE: She went home this evening. She is doing ok, just tired. So glad it went so well for her. Love my mom!

Shay