I'm not really sure what really caused my bad back. The only thing I can think of is that when I was in an accident when I was 9 yrs old and the vehicle went off the road and rolled 3 times (without my seat belt on, because I thought it was SO uncomfortable to try to sleep with it on) that it jacked it up but it took years and age to really catch up with me. But then you add a very active lifestyle with fitness and weight training to that and my lack of chiropractic care and my spine just eventually broke down and I ended up with a degenerated and herniated disk in my L5-S1.
This blog is a journey, a journal of sorts through my road of Minimally Invasive 360 Anterior Spinal Fusion. I'm starting this blog just a few days after my surgery ( today is 6/25/16) but I am going back on my Facebook page and taking posts from the past few months that lead up to this point, and dating them according to the original date I posted them to FB. I plan to continue to post new blog posts during my journey through recovery, therapy, returning to work and returning to my fitness life that I miss so much!
My hope is that others that have to have spinal fusion can learn some things through my journey and bring light to the unknowns on your journey through this same thing. Or maybe it's just friends that want to read what it is really like to go through this. I don't write these posts to get attention or sympathy but as a place to record this journey and a place to express my frustrations and get things off my chest.
One last thing, I originally herniated it in early 2015. But after approx 4 months of pain I went to see a pain Specialist. The pills helped instantly. I took it easy for the following 6-7 months with my workouts, very slowly increasing my weights. But then I over did it doing a heavy Dead lift for a PR (personal record) and did that disk in for good that second time. Obviously that disk had been degenerating for years. But it basically got to the point where there was almost nothing left and I was developing bone spurs.
I hope you enjoy my blog. Someday's I may have lots to say and other not much. Someday's I may sound very hopeful and others very discouraged. Usually the post will have to do with my back surgery or my fitness life, but sometimes they might just be about life in general. This journey is like a roller coaster. But I know there is light at the end of the tunnel and that if all goes as it should, I will be back doing the things I love before long.
