Last Friday, February 1, Darrel and I drove to UC San Francisco to try the next in a long series of treatments aimed at fixing his back problem. We said goodbye to Kitty and made the schlepp (that's what his doctor calls it) to the City. We made it just in time for the 11:15 appointment to get Botox injections in the long muscle down the side of his spine. The idea is that if you paralyze the muscle, it can't spasm and the other muscles get a chance to rest and take over for that muscle. 
Darrel gripped the chair in his typical non-demonstrative manner as the resident pierced him with the needle and the doctor said, "Go deeper... deep, deep, deep, there you go". I think I might have made a crack about how long the needle must be or something. Darrel said nothing.
Like any brave patient, Darrel got to pick where he wanted to have lunch. We ate at Brothers Restaurant for Korean bar-be-que. We filled up on a brothy soup, rice, tasty beef strips, rice noodles with veggies and all the fermented vegetable side dishes one can hope for. Did I mention this was Darrel's choice? The beef and rice are really good...
To answer the now famous question...Did it work??? Darrel doesn't think so at this point. We'll give it more time and maybe a second try (even deeper) in May. Either way, we continue to pray for healing.
2 comments:
I missed the recounting of this experience during small group so I appreciated it here. Darrel is such a champ. Our prayers are with you...
Botox! So that's your secret! I always wondered how a 57-year-old man managed to look so good.
Great blog, by the way. Keep it coming. We love reading about life back in the "old country."
--Graham, Roz, Gideon & Hannah
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