Photographic Evidence

This was right before surgery ...




This was right after - not quite so bright eyed. That's Mike from Colorado next to me. He had two ADRs.




This was just after I walked to the end of the hall and outside about 24 hours after surgery. I haven't stood that straight in a long, long time.




For those of you that actually saw my back before this, seeing the reverse lordosis or hump that I had in the lower back, here is the photographic proof that it is gone baby. Poof! If you never saw it just imagine Gollum from Lord of the Rings. It looked exactly like that. My son will think it is especially cool to see it gone.




For the curious cats, those things that look like Oreos are the artificial discs, or ADRs. In the X-Ray, the one that says "stehend" ignore the two parallel vertical lines and the horizontal one. That is metal in the post surgery brace that I wear. You can see some of the hardware from my 1997 fusion at the top of the image though. The photo below was taken from a fluoroscope during the operation.







That's about all I have for you tonight. I continue to improve and actually walked about a 1/4 mile this afternoon. I couldn't do that before I got here, so I'd say I'm off to a good start. I might try for 1/2 mile tomorrow.

If anybody can figure out how to mail a Big Mac, please do.

Oh yeah, thanks to those of you who added Margo to your prayer list. Keep it up. She was much better today. I don't think that was a coincidence.

P.S. Tomorrow I will show you the X-Rays before surgery so you can see the difference.

Location:Heilstättenweg,Ganderkesee,Germany