Today I am 3 weeks post op. I really wish I was doing better. I still have a lot of pain in my left leg and numbness that spreads from my left butt cheek to my left foot. This has been a very depressing Christmas for me.

Michael has done most of our Christmas shopping for us, I have gone out twice, both times this weekend to help out but other than that I have been housebound.

My two week doctor visit last week really left me feeling sad. I told him of all my problems and all he told me was it takes time and doubled up my medications. Well, he TOLD me to double up on my medicine but never revised the prescriptions so my insurance has been turning them down and I have to make all these calls to try and straighten it out which leaves me stressed out. I don't go back to the doctor until about Jan 13th or so.

It is sad how much I have deteriorated. On Saturday we went to do some shopping. I wanted to get some things for my niece and we needed some other things from Toys r Us. I wore my pedometer to see how I did. I walked 2000 steps between the toy store and the craft store. 2000 steps had me feeling like I was hit by a car. I was sweating and exhausted by the time I finished that. The next day we did more shopping. This time we went to Walmart and Cost Plus(my favorite store ever) and I walked a little over 4100 steps. Boy was I wiped out. I guess it's an improvement.

Stubby and Bucko are starting to get along a little better now. There hasn't been any of the snuggling that I envisioned, there is still some hissing going on, but there is a lot more tolerance. They play together some now and they eat off the same plate at dinner time.

Hope everyone has a Merry Christmas!