POST CAUDA EQUINA SURGERY

 Ever since this last surgery I have had a sharp,  nagging pain in my gut and the worst heartburn you could imagine.  Right from the recovery room and still now. Nonstop.

I will call my treatment team today and see what they say.

Prior to my cauda-equina surgery I could not feel hunger or fullness,  nor could I feel when I needed to urinate or have bowel movements.

I didn’t have ‘accidents‘. I simply didn’t know when I needed to go,  so, I would make sure that I urinated often and had a bowel movement when I could convince my mind to release the hounds or I guess ‘mounds‘ is a better word.

It was not unusual for me to go weeks without having a bowel movement. 

Twice in the past 5 years I became septic (blood poisoning) from not being able to go. Almost died one of the times.

The reason being that was the section of my spinal cord that was being crushed.

When I do go I cry real tears. Odd how something so natural can be so painful.

I always get the weirdest medical ailments.

My system is strange. For instance, 5 years battling throat cancer and I still have my tonsils.  Now, that is strange in itself.

Strapped to the table in my ‘cage’ receiving the radical radiation treatments

I am definitely not like those humans all around me.

I am Blessed to have the proper use of my legs and my one kidney is now functioning again.

I was told that it will take many months, perhaps years, before I am healed and we know what organs and limbs are working properly. Also, for this excruciating pain to hopefully settle.

A small price for me to pay to get the gift of life and not become a permanant paraplegic.

I have been through so much these past few years.

11 times dropped out and had to be resuscitated then spend days or weeks on life support. 7 serious surgeries that many poor souls would never have survived.

At one point in time I weighed only 67 pounds.  I now weigh 155.

Me at 67 pounds

Physically my life is a painful Hell. But. Life is about your mind and emotions. Not your physical limitations.

THIS IS WHY I AM ALWAYS SMILING AND REFUSE TO ALLOW DARKNESS OR DEPRESSION  INTO MY LIFE!

Bless the magic and talented hands of my spinal surgeon,  Dr. Suppiah, at Toronto Western Spinal Clinic for saving my life once again.

Gastric Feeding Tube

Weight Losses

My hyperbaric chamber treatments

Many weeks in Princess Margaret Cancer Center

Post exploded spleen

Radical radiation treatments

Half the man I once was

My autobiography of the first 18 months of battling the first 2 cancers