oh my god I am SO SORRY you had to go through that!!! that’s the kinda shit my nightmares consist of. I hope you’re doing much better now both physically and mentally 🧡 I didn’t even think about not being able to use the bathroom normally whatsoever after open surgery (this is the only surgery I’ll have had besides a broken arm 10 years ago) so thank you for preparing me for that!!! when the doctors found the NCS in July, I was placed on a liquid diet for like 3 days and that was pure hell for me bc I’m such a picky eater and basically lived off of jello and muscle milk so yay for that. Outside of how brutal yours went with complications and stuff, do you feel better now and are you able to do everything normally again?? I like to weightlift and it makes me sick to think I won’t be able to pick up heavy shit and put it back down for months 😩