Adored Wife's Surgery

As if Adored Wife didn't have enough to put up with, she's facing hernia repair surgery coming up.  She jokes that she's hitting middle age and completely falling apart.

It should be relatively straightforward, and our health insurance is currently good--we've met our deductible for the year and there won't be any out-of-pocket expenses.

She's a little worried about anesthesia and is trying to get it done with a spinal block so she can stay awake--the last time she went under she wound up having some seizure activity so we'd rather avoid that.

But it's a fairly small muscle separation as these things go, and the doctor said recovery should be fairly easy--a day or two of bed rest, a pretty sore week and then she ought to feel much better.

We appreciate your prayers, though--our past experience suggests that when things are supposed to have been simple they often turn out not to be.  It'd be nice to have something where the doctor's optimistic predictions turn out to be right.

I'll keep you posted.

Hope all's well out there, friends, and God bless.