You gotta have that prayer in the forefront. Who do's Roberts and you are listening to the White House. What's up family? This is your girl getting adjusted in the chair.

Sarah Jake's Roberts and you are listening to the Woman Evolve podcast.

I usually ask at this point, how are you?

But given the fact that I just had surgery, I'm going to skip to the me part and then we'll come back to the you part.

And then we could just see how things are going.

I am almost two weeks post-operation and I had the surgery I called had if you people just call

it ACDF but it stands for anterior cervical dysectomy and fusion.

And what it is, did I explain this already?

I don't know if I explained this already, but they cut, my surgical tape is still on my neck,

but they open your neck, move your vocal cords in esophagus, and find the cervical spine,

remove the herniated disc in my case that was compressing the spinal cord,

replace it with like a spacer in between, and then put like metal plates and screws in.

And that I, sometimes when I walk myself through exactly what happened, it helps me to

understand why I feel the way that I feel because I, I, like, I go back and forth

I vacillate between being in a lot of pain

and feeling fine

I feel at this point

like pain management is under control

I was not at all prepared

for the level of pain I felt

immediately after surgery

I'm pretty tough

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