One year ago (June 10, 2014) - Looking back at my spinal fusion
Xray: 10 days after surgery One of my x-rays from October 2014 (six months after surgery) Good evening everyone. Tomorrow marks the one year anniversary of my spinal fusion. As some of you know, since 2013, I had been suffering from moderate to severe back pain. The pain was to the point where I could not walk (no matter how hard I tried). I spent all of 2013 going from one doctor to another trying to figure out what was causing the extreme pain. I tried all methods of pain management (including the hippie stuff) and nothing helped me. When I got referred to my neurosurgeon, I had a lot of high hopes. After extensive tests, and one extremely painful discography, I was cleared for surgery. You may be wondering what the surgeon found during these tests. Here's a lowdown of what he found: -Degenerative Disc Disease -Early onset arthritis throughout my back -Lumbar spondyliosis -Spinal Stenosis -Scoliosis (already knew about this one. I've had this since I was 11 years...