20 Aug 2022 1:01 pm
I didn't get to Woodstock, but I was in college during the late 60s and early 70s, so we likely would have a lot of experiences that compare.sootedupCyndi » 20 Aug 2022, 12:40 pm » wrote: ↑ LOL... he hasn't been feeling well. He had a serious operation. We have to leave him alone. When he feels better... we sick em.i call him SuperDoof.. he is a woodstock boy.
He's a woosy.
I was completely paralyzed (central cord syndrome) from a blackout fall caused by dehydration+low blood pressure last year, that was the result of cervical stenosis. For several hours all I could move were my eyes. A bit of a fright.My operation was 6 vertebrae split, cut partly through in another spot, then hinged open and a piece of cadaver bone inserted in the gap in order to make more room in my spinal canal for my spinal cord (rather than get a laminectomy). Until I fell I didn't realize there was no fluid around the cord to cushion it. Learned the narrow canal was partly congenital and partly from arthritis making it smaller yet.
Post-op the most drugs I took were a half dozen muscle relaxers over a couple of days and never took any of the oxy. Was exercising in a neck brace within a couple of days.
Just kidding about the woosy part. Every spine is different and procedures and surgeons are different, particularly in their levels of competence. I didn't take pain pills because there was very little pain in my particular case. Back pain seems like a terrible thing for folks to have to live with. Glad I never had to.