Going under

16:00
24 October 2006

It's time to go into surgery!

I don't really remember much about this. Other than the anesthesiologist saying that she knew what she was doing, and that I would be totally asleep during teh whole process, and taht she was going to tape my eyes shut. Great. Last thing I remember was waiting for my OR (operating room) to open up. I remember the bright lights of the operating room, and that was about it.

Apparently I was on my stomach during the whole process. They fused the two vertebrae on top of the L1 (T11 and T12) to the two vertabrae on the bottom of L1 (L2 and L3). They fused it with two rods on either side of my spine, with screws going through my vertabrae. They are supposed to be made out of titanium. They are also supposed to be in me forever. The L1 is untouched.