4 Month update

Well, it has been 4 months already. Tomorrow we go see the surgeon and find out if I can get the okay to go back to work. I think that I will, I sure feel like I can. I'm starting to get a little impatient with all the waiting. With being pain free, having lost 50+ lbs and the cpap to correct my sleep apnea I'm raring to go.

As far as the spine goes I have not much new to report, I've been pain free since the last report. The only real difference is that with the last report if I tried to lift something too heavy I would really feel it at the surgical site. Now when I lift heavier things I don't feel it so much. There is occasionally a minor ache but I wouldn't even take a tylenol for it, which is amazing considering all the gabapentin and dilaudid that I was taking pre-surgery.

I have noticed that my back feels 'different' above the surgical site now. I don't know how to explain it, I'm hesitant to call it pain, but it feels kind of weird and uncomfortable at times. I suppose it's just that things are different on the inside and I'm going to have to adjust to it.