New member, symptoms questions.

[stevehernes]

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[Jill Marie]

Mark, Glad to hear you have a surgery date! Please let us know how you are doing before surgery and of course how you are after surgery when you feel up to it!  Jill Marie

[Mark F.]

Well how I'm doing now just over 3 weeks from the big day is very nervous.   I tell people that everyone else seems happier about me getting surgery than I am.  Don't get me wrong, I am glad that I am finally in the end game and looking forward to seeing some things improve instead of constantly in a slow decline.  But the gladness is only one of the many feelings I have.   I'm also scared to death of the surgery, worried about the outcome, and anxious about the length of recovery time.   

[Mark F.]

Today was a Pre-op appointment day.   Blood work, EKG, vitals, basically making sure I am healthy enough for surgery.   It took longer than I thought it would.  But everything was good.  Basically half a day spent there.   It's getting more real every day, only 2 weeks away now. 

[Mark F.]

Only down side so far is they told me no ibuprofen for a week before surgery.  Ibuprofen is the only thing that seems to cut the headaches down.  It doesn't eliminate them, but does make them more tolerable.  So that last week may be a bear