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Old 15th Dec 04, 01:08 PM
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Hello my friends......
as you see,I'm back......unfortunually,things went not as smooth as I wanted or as they were predicted....
When the surgery started,the doctors had a few unexpected problems:
They had to cut through an area full of muscles (build up during years of hard work ) and they also found out that I had a lot of blood vessels and capillary vessels,wich are normally not there........these vessels are a self-protecting mechanism,created by my body,to feed that area with blood and oxygen if the big vains can't fully do their job anymore.....
I lost a lot of blood,and they had to open my back a lot further before they could stop the bleeding and before they were at the right place to operate....
I've been @ Intensive Care for 24u,had to lay down without moving for 3 days with a lot of drains in my body....

Now I have a left foot that feels if it doesn't belong to my body and a slice of 20 cm in my back,instead of the usual 3 cm.....
The docs don't know if the feeling in my left foot will come back to normally,and they also don't know if I ever will be capable to do my job again....In 3 months,they can tell me more .....
ATM,I have to take rest as much as possible.......good thing that laptops exist...
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