I can’t let the month of May, 2013 go by without marking the two-year anniversary of one of the most difficult decisions I have ever made.
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Before I go on: I have no medical training. This is a story. My story. It is not a recommendation – and I may be the most foolish person to ever live for having done what I did.
Read if you like – but see your own doctor, and make your own decisions.
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In May, 2011, heavily overweight and in fairly constant pain, unable to walk properly even with a walker, I received the news that an MRI showed further spinal disc degeneration ABOVE and BELOW the L4-L5 spinal fusion I had received over four years previously.
To tell the truth, I never properly recovered from that surgery, and now they were telling me I needed more – and that the problem would probably progress, and I would need further surgery later. They told me to schedule the surgery, that it would only get worse.
I walked away from that orthopedic surgeon’s office – and never went back.
That’s not the scary part.
The scary part is that somehow I made a decision to seek my own solutions – and somehow I won.

These photos are my proof. Continue reading →
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