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Aren’t there some spine specialists on here?

Discussion in 'General' started by Gorilla George, Jul 28, 2020.

  1. As fucked up as that looks, id give my left nut to be able to do it like him. :D
     
  2. KneeDragger_c69

    KneeDragger_c69 Well-Known Member

    Great news, regardless if it's not where I'm sure you'd like to be at.

    This back surgeries take time, so just be patient... yes yes I've read that is not your forte ! ;) But never the less, be patient.

    You definitely will start to feel different pains, because you'll always be progressing. So chances of what you're feeling right now might be the inflammation diminishing of the operation.

    Slow but surely, you will get there.

    Mine was nothing as invasive as yours and 5 years (next month) I still get nerve pinches and it shoots down my booty :p
     
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  3. Yeah, patience isn't really my thing. :D

    Stan said there is a fine line between doing a lot so I can re-teach my legs how to work, and doing too much which causes them to not work as well. I am still trying to find that balance point.

    I know those nerve pinches all too well. :(
     
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  4. KneeDragger_c69

    KneeDragger_c69 Well-Known Member

    Keep doing what you are doing... !

    You're being smart about it and it'll help in the long run... and it will be long :( but will have an end ;)
     
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  5. cav115

    cav115 Well-Known Member

    Hang in Chris.

    Do we all need to come down and have a party?? :D

    Looking forward to seeing you recovered! Glad you`re on the road!
     
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  6. Sabre699

    Sabre699 Wait...hold my beer.

    Oh great...we'd have a dancer on an elliptical and someone holding a hairy ball. :crackup:

    Just get better Bro...rootin' for ya. :beer:
     
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  7. Shenanigans

    Shenanigans in Mr.Rogers neighborhood

    @Gorilla George , man I hate you've had such a bad recovery and issues.
     
  8. Thanks guys, I appreciate that. :beer:
     
  9. Almost home. Been in Spain 6 weeks working. Landed in ATL from Amsterdam an hour ago, now on the flight to TRI.

    They originally said it be 6-8 months before I’d be able to go back to work. I told them I could do it in 4.

    Then after surgery when they realized I couldn’t walk and had severe nerve damage, they said it would be 8-12 months.

    I told them I would still do it in 4.

    They said “you won’t be able to do that”. I was like “Oh you really shouldn’t have said that... don’t tell me I can’t”.

    Even the wife told them “I really wish you wouldn’t have said that, now he will kill himself just to prove you wrong”. :crackup:

    I got on a plane headed to work exactly 4 months to the day they cut me open. It was kinda surreal, because my plane departed at the exact same time of my surgery, literally to the minute.

    I got some funny looks because of the way I walk. But fuck ‘em. I did it. That’s all that matters.
     
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  10. Funkm05

    Funkm05 Dork

    Congrats.

    They’re looking at you funny because of how you walk? But you’re walking, and the looks aren’t for the way you look, now. :D
     
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  11. motion

    motion Nihilistic Member

    Glad you beat it. Where in Spain? Hopefully you got a tapas crawl in?
     
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  12. Las Palmas (Gran Canaria).

    ...and I don’t even know what that is. Haha.
     
  13. Dave K

    Dave K DaveK über alles!

    You aren't lifting and lugging shit anymore, right? You're a desk jockey?

    <muttering to myself> Dwayne Haskins, f@ck!
     
  14. crashman

    crashman Grumpy old man

    Like I said before, you are a hard headed motherfucker!:D Good job proving them wrong!
     
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  15. HPPT

    HPPT !!!

    Can you walk in the dark now?
     
  16. Pretty much. Luckily I get paid for what I know and what I can get done, not so much what I do myself.
     
  17. Sorta. I still need some kind of light and look down. But I can do it better than I used to. I can look up every now and then and will keep walking while I do so.
     
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  18. Dave K

    Dave K DaveK über alles!

    Smart man.
     
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  19. HPPT

    HPPT !!!

    Let's not get carried away here.
     
  20. Dave K

    Dave K DaveK über alles!

    Just because he bought a copy of Garfield: the movie on Blu Ray AFTER seeing it on HBO doesn't make him dumb. It makes him a simple man. :D
     
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