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 […]

Posted on June 05, 2013 by Tim Barrie

Arrived at Quiron hospital “Clinica” 7:30am. A cab was waiting for us at 7:15am. By 8am we were in Sonja’s room, Yolanda met us in reception and escorted us through the check in and to her room explaining everything. The nurse came in about 8:15 and took blood pressure and asked the usual questions. By […]

Posted on June 05, 2013 by Tim Barrie

We are getting way more attention and service than we would typically expect in the U.S. Paid for cab’s, ferrying us to and from the hospital, an escort through each room and consultation at the hospital, very little waiting around.  The picture is one of the many pretty views from the Hospital. Having said that, […]

Posted on June 04, 2013 by sonjabarrie

This is what I posted on the ADR forum, sorry too tired to write or rewrite this. Don’t know when I’ll be able to post again but as Tim is willing to post for me you will at least get a different perspective on things. He should be posting pics of me pre and post […]

Posted on June 04, 2013 by Tim Barrie

First post from Tim for Sonja – We are now installed in our cooool apartment in Barcelona with 8.72Mbs of bandwidth, bit slower than I am used to….   but pretty good I guess!  Big operation day tomorrow, so will be distracted over the next 2 -3 days, probably…  We had a meeting with the surgeon […]

Posted on May 30, 2013 by sonjabarrie

My new umbrella arrived, yeah! Silly but it’s one of those things I’ve been meaning to get for ages. I love walking but the older I get the harder it is for me to control my core temperature and the easier I burn.  Don’t ask me how but I’ve been known to blister, badly I […]

Posted on May 25, 2013 by sonjabarrie

Barcelona here we come, 8 days……. Well so much for my posting every day. That went out the window when the pain upped.  Hard to do anything except just what's necessary to get through the day.  Work comes first, if we don't keep working on our business we don't make any money and I have […]

Posted on May 20, 2013 by sonjabarrie

Wow less than 2 weeks till we fly out. Getting a bit nervous now. Am I doing the right thing? Do I really need this surgery? Can we really afford it? Will it just help or will it actually solve the problem? Will I even survive? The pain in my back had been pretty bad […]