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Nancy Young[_5_] Nancy Young[_5_] is offline
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Default OT - pending surgery

On 11/23/2011 9:10 AM, A Moose in Love wrote:
> On Nov 23, 8:23 am, Nancy Young<email@replyto> wrote:
>> On 11/23/2011 12:47 AM, Cheryl wrote:
>>
>>> So it seems I will have to have back surgery. The second opinion
>>> diagnosis today by a neurosurgeon is spondylolisthesis. A dislocation at
>>> L5-S1. And a cyst. And nerve compression and failure of lumbar disks and
>>> joints due to the instability of my spine.

>>
>> Wow. That's a lot of pain, were you in a train wreck? Ouch.
>>

>
> a friend of our family was in a train wreck. it took place on park
> street. that's one reason for my e-mail addy: parkStreetBooBoo...the
> other reason? that info will be given out only when the time is ripe;
> it may never happen. that incident ended pretty much on the railroad
> tracks. to be continued...?
>
> I saw the wreck in the morning when my school bus drove over the
> tracks. I didn't realize that it was her car until I was told about
> it when I got home. She spent months in the hospital getting
> surgeries/corrective surgeries. She lived into her 90's.


Yikes. My motto, watch out for trains, you won't win that one.

The only train wreck story I know personally did not end well at
all, a guy at work lost his son and mother. After that, hearing
Driving that train, high on cocaine had new meaning.

nancy