Under the Knife

Deb recently underwent surgery on her spine.  She experienced many months of unrelenting radicular pain down her left arm.  She had an anterior diskectomy at her C5-6 and C6-7 and then the surgeon placed two artificial disks.  The surgery went very well and she is almost 3 weeks out.  I see a lot of progress, but she is inpatient and wants to be completely better now.  It looks like it will take months for her to heal and get back to her baseline.  This has been a humbling reminder how fragile our health can be and that our aging bodies have problems from time to time and sometimes there is absolutely nothing we can do about it. We just have to deal with it and make the best of it.  Deb and I are optimistic that her previous fitness and good health will give her an excellent chance to heal and overcome this problem.  It has been a tough few months for her.  I just want my climbing partner back!