I'm back

Wow has it really been two months since my last post? Seems more like 6. So much has been going on and it leaves little time to blog. I know, I know. That's no excuse. Ok, the dog ate my blog then. No, there have been a few medical dramas for both of us.

Turns out both of us are going to surgery this fall when we get back to LA. We've been in London for almost a month now. At least I have. Dark left Monday for Tokyo and then Aukland on business. I decided to stay in London. Travel isn't easy right now. Hell, walking and holding my head up is hard right now. I started having wierd symptoms while we were in New Zealand a few months ago necessitating a couple of trips to the emergency rooms there. I started having trouble with my balance when walking. I would suddenly go spastic and my legs would just give out. Not attractive at all. Imagine a stumbling drunk and that's what I looked like only I was sober - damnit! Then I started having trouble holding my head up and centered. After we got back to LA I was diagnosed with cervical stenosis with myelopothy. The arthritis I have in my neck has caused bone spurs that are compressing my spinal canal in two places pinching my spinal cord.

As if he couldn't stand me hogging all the attention at the hospital Dark was in an auto accident the day after we got back to LA and was rushed to the ER with burns on his legs from a ruptured oil pan or line in his Jeep. He was pinned in the wreck while hot oil leaked on his bare legs. He got a whiplash as well so we now have matching neck braces. Some of his burns were third degree so he's going to have plastic surgery when we get back to LA.

We decided to take off and come to London for the summer and try to have a little fun before we go under the knife this Fall. So we're back home at Cranley Place. Since Dark will be gone for another week I have resolved to get back to blogging. I have some things I want to write about. We also have our 1 year anniversary coming up soon and I need some suggestions for a gift for Dark. The traditional gift is paper. So run with that kids and give me some great ideas. If you're in the South Kensington area let me know and I'll drag out the G & T or whatever your poison is and then I can have an decent excuse to stumble.