Back in July, I asked you all to pray for me as I had chiari decompression surgery, which I thought was the first in the series of two surgeries to correct an extremely painful facial nerve condition I have called trigeminal neuralgia. The trigeminal neuralgia went away after the chiari decompression, so I did not have the second surgery at that time. However, the pain has returned (as the doctors said it likely would) so I will undergo Microvascular Decompression Surgery tomorrow. I will keep you up to date with how it goes.
UPDATE, March 8, 2007: I am now home from having surgery. I was in the hospital for 4 days then stayed at a family house in Pittsburgh for the net 4 days or so. It feels good to finally be back home, my head still hurts a bit, and i’m still napping a lot and resting most of the remaining time, but all was successful except some minor numbness in my face. And I’m happy to say that (at least as I can tell through the numbness), my trigeminal neuralgia pain is gone. And I will change that for a bit of facial numbness anyday. Thank you all for your thought and prayers.