Sticking My Neck Out, I'm Still Standing! - (20 Hours After LITERALLY Cut-Throat Neck-Breaking Surgery) - IMRAN™ By the grace of God, and as Billy Joel sings, "I'm still standing!" It was 20 hours after a literally cut-throat neck-breaking surgery, with many John Wick twists and turns. Blessed and grateful, I had to stand up and walk a few steps around the area to celebrate being alive. Why? Read what happened and how I almost did not make it! How did it go? After I was anesthetized, the surgeon basically cut open my throat. He moved the esophagus, the neck muscles, and carotid artery aside, and got to work. He and his team had to then scrape out three crushed disks. Then came the next challenge, literally breaking apart C6 from C5 and C7 which it had improperly fused with over time. Next he had to try to pull off the calcification that had stuck itself to the spinal cord. He had to do it without too much damage to the dura (the spinal cord's covering) or paralyzing me. Cue the dural tear and spinal fluid leakage which had to be stopped. Then he had to screw in a metal cage between C5 and C7 and to replace the now gone C6. Then they filled it in with my own leftover bone pieces and more, and then finished by stitching me up. Of course, three out of the 5 most dangerous complications I had been warned about did happen during my 7+ hours long surgery. There is that little thing called "risk of stroke" with it having struck every generation in my known family tree. Plus the added twist I threw in of not waking up from anesthesia. Of course yours truly gave the medical team plenty of scares. Kidding aside, it is true. I almost did not make it out -- even though I had a great medical team, and an amazing surgeon. That is why I am always so grateful. What may be a fairly routine surgery can include things which are nothing short of divine intervention and miracles, fused right in with the bone graft! Yes, that is why my gratitude -- for every day and every smile that I lived, and all the love I received -- is infinite. That is why I literally feel like I have been given a new life by the Almighty - yet again. May the new life opportunities keep coming my way with all your love and prayers. Thank You and Amen. © 2023 IMRAN™Sticking My Neck Out, I'm Still Standing! - (20 Hours After LITERALLY Cut-Throat Neck-Breaking Surgery) - IMRAN™ By the grace of God, and as Billy Joel sings, "I'm still standing!" It was 20 hours after a literally cut-throat neck-breaking surgery, with many John Wick twists and turns. Blessed and grateful, I had to stand up and walk a few steps around the area to celebrate being alive. Why? Read what happened and how I almost did not make it! How did it go? After I was anesthetized, the surgeon basically cut open my throat. He moved the esophagus, the neck muscles, and carotid artery aside, and got to work. He and his team had to then scrape out three crushed disks. Then came the next challenge, literally breaking apart C6 from C5 and C7 which it had improperly fused with over time. Next he had to try to pull off the calcification that had stuck itself to the spinal cord. He had to do it without too much damage to the dura (the spinal cord's covering) or paralyzing me. Cue the dural tear and spinal fluid leakage which had to be stopped. Then he had to screw in a metal cage between C5 and C7 and to replace the now gone C6. Then they filled it in with my own leftover bone pieces and more, and then finished by stitching me up. Of course, three out of the 5 most dangerous complications I had been warned about did happen during my 7+ hours long surgery. There is that little thing called "risk of stroke" with it having struck every generation in my known family tree. Plus the added twist I threw in of not waking up from anesthesia. Of course yours truly gave the medical team plenty of scares. Kidding aside, it is true. I almost did not make it out -- even though I had a great medical team, and an amazing surgeon. That is why I am always so grateful. What may be a fairly routine surgery can include things which are nothing short of divine intervention and miracles, fused right in with the bone graft! Yes, that is why my gratitude -- for every day and every smile that I lived, and all the love I received -- is infinite. That is why I literally feel like I have been given a new life by the Almighty - yet again. May the new life opportunities keep coming my way with all your love and prayers. Thank You and Amen. © 2023 IMRAN™

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