Charles' back surgery

Well, you should know by now that life never slows down in our house.  Ha!  We got home late last night, quickly unpacked and did laundry only to be up by 4:45am to prepare for Charles to have back surgery.  We checked in at the hospital at 5:30am and surgery started at 7am.  By 8am the Doctor came out and let me know everything went just as planned.  He removed part of the disk that was herniated at L5/S1, shaved a small portion of the bone, and removed some calcification.  Doc reported that although the nerves were very agitated, they appeared to be in good shape and he would expect a full recovery with the nerves and pain.  Charles stayed in recovery until around noon and then we headed home.  I am so blessed that his healing has been somewhat easy and he hasn't been in pain much.  He says it is more soreness than pain, which is already quite a change.  Praying the healing continues!