As far as I know I will have the surgery for the Vegal Nerve Simulator for depression in the next few weeks. He does surgery on Fridays and my PCP has to be there so they have to sencranize their watches.

He seems very good. I asked him how many he's done. I will be the 3rd for him but he's an ear nose and throat specialist so he works on that area anyway.

He explained it to me where the incisions will be and we talked about the RSD. He said it was very hard to do a block for that part of the neck but he will put in extra meds for it. He has one patient that has cancer that he says is dealing with RSD like symptoms but he's hoping that it won't be the case for me.

He's a very nice down to earth younger Dr. I was at ease with him.

I am excited but I cried all the way home. All I could think of was Bill not bein here to enjoy this part of life with me. After 34+ years of dealing with me with depression, he's not going to be here with me if I get through this.

He was the best though. He never complained about the shape I was in.

He was a jokester forever. Dustin told me that Susan had told them about the joke he pulled years ago. He tied a string to a purse and laid it out in the road and when a car would stop by to check it out he would pull it away. Dustin said that he and some other kids did it last week. Travis said it was like having 3 kids instead of two with him around.

I am trying to pull myself together and see the good that will come out of this surgery. I know it will make my life better if it works. The Dr. seems to think it will.

I just wanted to share the good news with all of you. Your family.

Ada

wishing you well ada... hope things work out for you..any help we can get is positive..stay strong--linda

Ada,
It sounds like you have a great surgical team for your VNS. My prayers are with you..
Many Hugs
Dawn

I'll be praying for you. But, it sounds like your in good hands.

Soft Hugs, Annick

My thoughts and prayers are with you too, Dreambeliever! It sounds like your Doctors are really on top of everything!

Very Gentle Hugs to you!

Brokenwings

P.S. That is such a funny "trick" with the Purse!!! Thanks for sharing that!

Hugs Ada,

You will be in my thoughts and prayers!

Rain

The only thing that keeps going through my head is this RSD thing but I still have to go through this.

Brokenwings, Bill pulled jokes on everyone he knew. He never ever stopped laughing and joking no matter how sick he got.

I can remember once he called his neice in the next big town and asked her if she would call around and find him a sky hook. She asked him what it was and he told her it was a hook that hung from the sky to pull a motor out of a car. He told her before he came that far he wanted to know who might have one. She called every auto place in town asking for one. Can you imagine what they were thinking when she asked for that? She called him back to tell him no one had it. That girl would fall for anything.

He told one of Susan's friends that the reason the water was coming out of her radiator was because she didn't have enough air in her tires. She went home and told her Dad that. He was a Dr. so I wondered if he knew how stupid that sounded.

When dad was bedridden, he would go into Mom's closet and get one of her coats and a wig and purse and come in the room and talk to dad like a woman. Daddy would just laugh. Bill was the only person that could make Daddy laugh. Daddy was always serious.

He would tie a ball to a string and when Daddy reached for it he would pull it back. That would get Daddy laughing too. Daddy was bedridden for 7 years so that was a feat within itself getting him to laugh.

He would dress up to make Mom laugh too when she got sick.

There were times I would get so mad at him for not being serious. I use to think he never had a serious bone in his body. He'd make a joke about everything.

He pulled jokes on his Mom when she got sick. He would call her up and change his voice and tell her some wild story.

That I will always miss. How he could make anyone laugh.

Susan use to get so mad at him because he would teach the boys to whistle at women or yell things at them when they were only 3 and 4. I use to tell him he was a bad influence on them. They would do it when they were with Susan and Travis too from learning from him and Travis would call over to the house and laugh and say what the heck is Bill teaching our boys?

We never had too much doom and gloom around here with him around that was for sure.

I just wanted to share with you how he was. This part of him puts a smile on my face, losing him kills me.

Ada