An Update On My Wife, Melanie

Many of you know about the problems Melanie has had with her back over the past few years. She was diagnosed a few years ago with a degenerative problem in her spine that the doctors said would progressively compromise the strength in her back. She had surgery this past August, then therapy for three months and has been slowly recovering since then.

A few days ago she had another incident that caused me to cut short my trip to California and immediately come back home to her. Last weekend we were out of town with a few friends for a weekend getaway. We ate breakfast in a restaurant on Sunday morning and something she ate made her sick. Shortly afterward, she vomited and said it felt like a knife pierced through her back when she did.

Obviously, we canceled her plan to go to California with me. I debated going but she insisted that she had most likely pulled a muscle and that I should go ahead without her. So I did, but no sooner did I arrive in Los Angeles on Thursday than she called to tell me that the results of the X-Rays she had done showed that it isn't a pulled muscle. She broke her back when she vomited. It's a fracture in L-1. (The surgery was on L4-5) I immediately changed my return flight and arrived back here last night at 2:00AM.

She is in terrible pain right now, but the earliest she could get into see the surgeon is Monday. Her previous surgeon said this will require a specialized surgery that he doesn't do. So we'll see a different surgeon on Monday and will know how this will proceed after that.

When I began this blog years ago, I said that I would use it for both personal and public posts. This is very personal to us. I'd appreciate your prayers. Our Father is faithful. We are trusting Him and ask you to pray for her during these trying days.