Update

Yahoo! Slept (in bed) the last couple of nights. I've stopped muscle relaxants and have reduced pain meds significantly.

Had my first post surgery visit Tuesday and can return to work on 9th (Monday). When I shared with the nurse practitioner that I had really bad neck and back spasms, she replied "we hear that all the time" ... silly me I thought I was dying;-)

I snuck into work for a couple of hours yesterday, under the guise of bringing the "return to work" note to the nurse. I've got among other restrictions a two pound lifting restriction (pretty funny).

Sometime remind me to tell ya'll about going to the hospital for surgery... could a sworn I was at a Southwest Airlines check in gate...

Cheers
rws