Guess what?!

So last Friday, a good friend of mine Christina, asked me to meet at her desk that she wanted me to meet someone. She introduced me to a lovely girl (woman) Betsy. Betsy was just Dx with Chiari 1! With the statistics what they are (1:1,000 have Chiari and only a fraction are dx or have symptoms) I never expected to work with someone else who had symptoms and was dx. I also have been in contact with a guy in a nearby city who is interested in a support group and doesn't currently know of any in MN. So I'm more pumped now than ever to get going on organizing this support group.

Thank you to everyone for your on going support and love!!

-AP

A few pictures. If you have any please send them to me.:)

Here is another one a day after my surgery... You can see some of the spots they had me "strapped in" on my shoulders/neck and the dr.'s initials.

Today this picture was taken. Looking pretty good, if I do say so myself! It's funny when I see pictures of it because I don't see a day to day or any transformation until a picture is taken. To say the least I'm very happy with how well it is healing. Woot woot!


Staples!!! AGGGHHH! Franken head. (@ hospital) When I came out of surgery I was in pig tails (the nurses put them in) it kinda stuck and I had pig tails in for like 3 weeks. :)

I kinda like the look of the staples. It's like extreme piercing or something. Next time (yeah right..."next time" HA!) I'll have to get pink rhinestone staples.

12 days after they punched staples in...those suckers came out! Some staples were wiggly (like loose teeth) and ready to come out. Here it looks like a scar with bug bites around it.

Loaded up on meds, sore, and bored.