Today I picked up my hard neck brace that I'll wear after the surgery. It is honestly the part of surgery I'm dreading most (even more than the surgery itself), because I hate anything snug around my neck, like turtleneck shirts/sweaters, or even a winter scarf. The brace is pretty restrictive. I'm hoping the pain meds will make me not care so much.

Although I think I have it relatively easy -- I don't have to wear it when I'm sleeping or showering or icing my neck, and a lot of people do. And I think I only have to wear it for the first 2 weeks. Hopefully I can be chill about it. (I mean, I possess zero chill, but maybe opiates will let me borrow some chill.)

David it's a beautiful house. I hope the offer goes smoothly!

If you can't make your own chill, store-bought is fine. Seriously, I feel you on not liking things around your neck (maybe we were hanged in a past life...), I do hope the opiates help with that. May you have a warm fuzzy cloud of not caring about anything including the brace for two weeks.

Today I picked up my hard neck brace that I'll wear after the surgery.

I hope you find it comfortable. After a nasty whiplash accident decades ago, I had to wear one, or my head would just flop around painfully. It was comforting to have the security. Good~drugs~ma!