{"id":304,"date":"2008-08-20T13:04:29","date_gmt":"2008-08-20T19:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/laurie\/?p=304"},"modified":"2008-08-20T19:26:12","modified_gmt":"2008-08-21T01:26:12","slug":"update-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/laurie\/uncategorized\/update-4\/","title":{"rendered":"update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow has it been an exhausting couple of weeks!  There&#8217;s been a lot going on with the Blundell&#8217;s, well with me anyway.  I&#8217;m not going to go into much detail at all but after months and months of waiting for something I really wanted, I finally got it and then had to turn it down for some specific reasons.  It was a difficult choice but in the end I felt it was something I had to do and now I feel at peace with my decision.  About a week or two ago I had another episode with my heart and it&#8217;s still not back to normal yet but I talked with my cardiologist and to make a long story short, she feels it&#8217;s best to have another surgery.  They would do 1 of two things, or both&#8211;1- repair the issue they fixed in my heart 3 years ago that might have regrown, 2- fix another area of my heart, or do both of those.  They really won&#8217;t know what to do until they get in there.  My doctor feels it&#8217;s best to do the surgery again to make sure everything is okay and if not, fix it then.  I currently have another heart monitor for a few weeks and after that I&#8217;ll talk with my cardiologist about a plan.  So in the mean time, I&#8217;ve doubled my meds again and continue to be completely worn out, out of breath, lightheaded and have my heart beat out of my chest all day long. It&#8217;s great!<\/p>\n<p>Good news&#8211;well I think it is.  I had a follow up Cat scan and appointment with my nuerosurgeon this morning and as he said &#8220;the fractures in your spine aren&#8217;t getting any worse, that&#8217;s good.&#8221; &#8220;They aren&#8217;t healed  but they aren&#8217;t any worse.&#8221; He said as of right now, he doesn&#8217;t think I will need a surgery to fix it but he wants to see me back in 3 months and get another CT and we&#8217;ll go from there.  I&#8217;m still in a lot of pain and can&#8217;t do much without hurting but life goes on whether you are in pain or not.  And unfortunately since you can&#8217;t see my injury people tend to forget about it and either not believe me when I say I&#8217;m hurting or think I&#8217;m a baby because I still have pain.  I asked the doctor how long it would take for the pain to go away and he said about 3 to 6 months.  Seriously! i have like another month or 3 months of hurting!!  O&#8217;well, like I said&#8211;Life goes on.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, it&#8217;s been a crazy\/stressful couple of weeks around here.  Hopefully it will get better, i&#8217;m sure it will!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow has it been an exhausting couple of weeks! There&#8217;s been a lot going on with the Blundell&#8217;s, well with me anyway. 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