i'm back

after 3 surgeries. one to repair a burst bowel. I went to the er for stomach pain after taking all kinds of tummy meds and even pain pills didnt help. they did emergency surgery and put on an ostomy bag.

I had the bag for two months when they decided to do surgery to remove it. But when i went in, they found i had anemia and so surgery was impossible until i got the iron count built back up. they gave me iron pills which i took for a month with no improvement so the dr ordered 8 weeks of weekly iron infusions which brought up the iron levels to barely normal. after a period of 8 months since the first surgery i finally had the second one, this time to remove the ostomy bag and put everything back to the way it should be.

after that surgery i began talking strange and they thought i'd had a stroke so they decided to do a cat scan of my head. what a shock when they came back saying i had a brain tumor. and whats more it had to be removed as soon as possible or it would kill me. talk about no choice!

so on april 4th ihad brain surgery. the dr assured me he got it all but it was much larger than they thought. Let me tell you I've never had such a headache in my life and it still hurts although its endurable.

Now i'm in therapy learning how to walk and use my right arm and hhand. my speech is almost ok. It's been a hard last few years begining with kikos death, my botched knee replacement, the loss of my ability to walk and use my right side, the three surgeries and subsequent recoveries. the brain surgery I'm not recovered from yet but I'm getting there.

Please No More Problems at least for a little while... J