Titanium cage

During the surgery, the surgeons replaced two vertebrae with titanium cages. I hadn't a clue what that was, and they didn't have one handy to show me. I've managed to find a picture of one on the Internet, though:

http://www.medscape.com/content/2003/00/46/53/465370/art-nf465370.fig1.jpg

Cool, eh? On the next visit I'm going to ask them how they get the spinal cord to go through that, since I don't see any gaps to slide it through in the picture.

In other news, I can finally lift my laptop now, so chatting with people on jaber can be done at a reasonable speed without trashing by wrists from typing on the blackberry. Yay!

Also, Leif is definitely walking now. Craziness. I'll try to get some video soon.