Posted on June 13, 2013 by Tim Barrie

Missed a day, sorry guys!  Day 8 Post-Op Sonja left the hospital today and doesn’t need her stick! After a visit from Dr. Clavel, several from the nurses and a whole bunch of pills to take over the next several days as well a daily (anti-coagulant) injection pack, she has to do herself, they let […]

Posted on June 11, 2013 by Tim Barrie

Sonja is certainly getting a lot of attention, I think the nurses and doctors have been to see Sonja 20 times today.  Her sense of humor is back and I’m listening to her now laughing and joking with a couple of nurses and the house doctor. Today Sonja had an EKG, also they took her […]

Posted on June 10, 2013 by Tim Barrie

Here are a bunch of absolutly amazing and interesting resources (non-gory) showing what Sonja had done and what the Artificial Disks look like It's right out of Star Trek: First, the disk Check out this animation of how the disk is constructed and moves! Here is a graphic showing which disks she had replaced L3 […]

Posted on June 10, 2013 by Tim Barrie

Sonja feels like she turned a corner today. She got me out of bed in the morning and made me take her for a walk before I could even get dressed or get a coffee!!!!! After a short rest she then got up again so she could have breakfast sitting up. Within a few minutes […]

Posted on June 09, 2013 by Tim Barrie

11am Sunday June 9th – Day 4 Post-op Dr. Clavel came by (on a Sunday!! – I cannot even imagine a surgeon doing coming out to see his patients on a Sunday in the States).  He has Sonja and one other patient to see. He took the drain out and started reducing the morphine (2ml […]

Posted on June 08, 2013 by Tim Barrie

I'm finding it therapeutic to write about this experience and how Sonja is doing.   This is a first for me in lots of different ways… It's now 5:30pm Saturday for me here and after getting Sonja on feet and in a chair for a short period, eating lunch and getting her original dressing changed […]

Posted on June 08, 2013 by Tim Barrie

Sorry it’s been a day since I did an update, it’s surprising how time consuming it is to keep up and look after someone in hospital. Well it’s surprising to me anyway!  Sonja got out of ICU yesterday and is doing better, though still very weak, Sonja had the operation on Wednesday and it’s now […]

Posted on June 06, 2013 by Tim Barrie

3pm went down to see Sonja in ICU with Yolanda and she was much more coherent. She knew what was going on and was chatty and somewhat bossy.  She was still somewhat intermittently confused though and bossy at least to me. We chatted for an hour with Yolanda, the doctor came and said they she […]

Posted on June 06, 2013 by Tim Barrie

Sonja had some internal bleeding yesterday after the operation and had to go back in for a remedial procedure in the evening. They are kept her lightly sedated in intensive care (ICU) overnight to make sure she remained stable.  I got to see her last night and this morning though she was sedated, she looked […]

Posted on June 05, 2013 by Tim Barrie

Got a call from the surgeon (Dr. Clavel) at 12 noon, the operation went well, he replaced the three disks with no complications.  Sonja will be in recover for about the next 2-3 hours. So at that point I felt I could relax so I went out to wonder about in the sun for an […]