I received a call from my CRS' office today moving my appointment up from Wednesday to tomorrow afternoon. As I'm still bleeding quite a bit and still in much pain when I poop, I'm guessing we will be discussing LIS. The main thing I'm nervous about is how this may or may not affect the problem with my herniated disc and spinal stenosis. I am hoping that if the option to fix that is also surgical, I won't have a long wait between the two.

God be with you rasmith! just hang in there and keep up ur appointments and also the eating regime and water/liquid intake sweetie..

Hope the appointment went well, rasmith!

YEA!!! Good news. February 27th I go to the hospital to "kiss my butt goodbye!" Of course, I'm talking LIS. I have never in my life actually looked forward to surgery, but this time I will be counting down the days. There is light at the end of the tunnel, and it is for once not an oncoming freight! Now, I just have to survive until then.
I have to call my GP and schedule a pre-op physical to get his write off that I'm safe to undergo the procedure. I'll have to stop taking my daily 81mg Aspirin a week before the procedure, but it appears that my other meds are OK. Not sure if I'll get in my morning meds that day before going under the knife. My CRS said that is between my GP and the laughing gas guy.
I'm so happy I could just sh*t! Well, let me not get too far ahead of myself. I still have a couple weeks yet to survive through.
Hope everybody out there is having a mild day. May the MiraLAX be with you and your toilet seat soft!

Hey Rasmith,
That's great!!!!
So glad you have relief on the horizon!
I hope the two weeks fly by.
-Tanya