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It's coming off!

On Thursday morning I had an appt with my neck doctor. This would be my 8 week check up and he would hopefully say, "nice progress, see you in 4 weeks for removal." I was fearing he would lengthen my stay in prison to 16 weeks.

First I had to get xrays at the hospital and then bring them to the doctors office. Joking with the radiology students I told them to tell me what they saw - they said "I was healed perfect", ha ha ha ha. They have no idea what they are seeing - I think. Well, anyway they are also motorcyclists and remember me from 4 weeks ago and from my crash date. How could one forget my horrible leg! Very nice group of radiologist and students.

About an hour later we are at my neck doctors office and are quickly ushered into a room. My doctor comes briskly in, looks at the xray and says, "looks very good, I can barely see the fracture." WOOHOO! It means I am healing at a good pace.

So for the next twenty minutes I batter him with questions about my head pains. He says the only way to stop my headaches is to move the pin to another spot. Ugh! And the headaches are caused by the infected pin. Well, there is no way we are moving the pin - I can last another 4 weeks and do my darndest to clear up the infection. I am on antibiotics and do notice lesser tenderness anyways. At the end he says, "ok, your done, see you later."

We walk out to the reception to make another appt for 4 weeks away. The woman for some reason was confused and ended up calling the doctor over. He proceeded to count the weeks down from my Halo install date and says the the 21st would be 12 weeks. I wailed and said, "no - thats too far away." And then asked is he saying December or January. The woman looked at me and said,"December." I did not believe her , but she said again, that's what the doctor said. I was so happy! that is only 11 days away! (now its 9!)  I was stunned. W and I left the office in disbelief. My halo was coming off 3 weeks early.

I don't know if the doctor miscounted or knew how badly I wanted to be free. But also he saw how my neck had healed and wouldn't have said Dec 21st if it was still severely fractured. I have belief that he knows what he's doing.

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