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On The Road Again

Nancy's Notes 🖊️🎶

Six weeks after my spinal fusion surgery I have been given the all clear to start driving again! Woot woot! 🥳

This is very exciting news for me; however, some people may feel differently knowing I’m back on the road. Well, you’ve been warned! Just saying. 😆

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Author’s Note: Kidding aside, I am so grateful to be doing this well after major surgery. Both Bill and I are delighted with our new-found freedom; he’s been my chauffeur for the past six weeks. I’m really an excellent driver and in the 53 years I’ve been driving, I have never gotten a moving violation (and it’s not because the police have been unable to catch me!). 😎

This is “I Can’t Drive 55″ by Sammy Hagar

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43 thoughts on “On The Road Again”

  1. My husband had to be my chauffeur after I had my first cataract surgery (since my eyes were not playing for the same team until after I had the second surgery), and again when I broke my foot and had to wear a beastly giant boot on it for six weeks. Good thing he’s retired and didn’t have anything better to do. 🙂

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    1. Thanks for your excellent advice and unceasing encouragement, luv! You are the voice of experience and a great role model for me. My recovery would have been more difficult without the support of my friends. Thanks so much, Willow. I appreciate you! xoxo 🩶🩶🩶

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  9. No stopping you now! 🙂

    Terrifying for my wife who witnessed it. I was gone for ten minutes. Revived by CPR from two policemen who administered CPR (and broke all my ribs 😉 ) and then zapped me four times with a public access defibrilator. Sixteen days in hospital, and an ICD (defib) fitted in my chest and a stack of daily meds.

    But all good.. I bought a bike and was back at work after 10 weeks (though signed off for 8 months) and back playing tennis and pickleball and in the gym.

    I wrote about it all in positive and light hearted way in my wee book ‘NO LAUGHING MATTER: a short tale of death and how to recover from it’ available on Amazon. 😉

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    1. Amazing ‘wake up’ call, for sure. I read your post; thank goodness your wife didn’t panic and had the presence of mind to get help immediately. Yours is a miracle story for sure, Cee Tee! I’m grateful you’re still here to talk about it. Blessings on you! 💫

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    1. For sure, Debbie! And my hubs has his independence now, too; he’s been so great about driving me wherever I had to go. I’m the one who always drives whenever we go out and I’m not a very good passenger. It will be terrific being back in the driver’s seat again! I appreciate your good wishes. Thanks so much!

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    1. True enough although moving violations usually involve speeding, running a stop sign, illegal u-turns, going through a light, failing to signal, cell phone use, etc etc. … most of which indicate the driver was preoccupied, impaired and more. I’m sure you’d agree that a good driver wouldn’t do any of those things. Thanks, Jim.

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      1. I got several speeding tickets, one for drag racing, a failure to yield, running a stop light and I had to go to driving school run by the State Troopers.  I never got a ticket for cell phone use, as all of my tickets were accumulated, before anyone had them.

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    1. Dear God, Cee Tee! That must have been terrifying! Just last year? That is a very long time to be restricted from driving. I don’t know much about the ramifications of cardiac arrest other than it’s damn serious and your probably lucky to be alive. Certainly, you’re grateful for your recovery, as I am! Did you write about your experience on your site? I hope all that is now well behind you and you have made a complete recovery. 🙏🏼

      Thank you for your good wishes; most appreciated. ♡

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