PRAISE GOD!!!!! IT IS A MIRACLE!!!!!!

Hey everybody. GOD IS THE GREAT HEALER! JESUS CHRIST IS ALIVE! THE HOLY SPIRIT MOVES AMONG US, AND HE WAS IN THE SURGERY ROOM TODAY MAKING SURE ALL OF YOUR PRAYERS, AND MY PRAYERS, WERE ANSWERED!!!! Thank you Lord for taking care of me! Thank you for leading me to this wonderful place. Thank you Lord for guiding the hands of my doctor to perform the perfect surgery.

Many of you have seen me walking these last two years or so. I've been using a cane and just could not stand up straight no matter what I tried. The stenosis in my back had made it physically impossible to stand erect, much less arch my back. As the stenosis got worse and worse, the more hunched over I became. It was awful and I was unbelievably miserable. The only way I could get around was humped over. And then there was the pain; day and night, constant and completely agonizing.

So, yesterday a man named Dr. Karsten Ritter-Lang changed my life as I know it. YES, I CAN ALREADY TELL!! Here is what happened:

After Dr. Ritter-Lang got me opened up, he discovered that my original fusion, the one from when I broke my back in 1997, was solid as a rock so there was no need to re-fusion at that location. Additionally, he thought vertebrae L3 looked to be in pretty good shape too. So, he decided that there would be no fusion at all. Instead, he would install one more artificial disc, bringing the total to four. I was asleep when this decision was made, but I'm glad it was. I wanted to avoid any fusion of any kind anywhere. Interestingly, I may be the only man in the world with four. We are trying to find out. Needless to say, if I'm not the only one in the world, I am one of the very few.

Beyond that, the procedure itself was pretty straight ahead; take the old discs out and put the new ones in. I'll include a link to the demonstration video tomorrow maybe. It's pretty cool.

But that's not the good news ... The nurse came to my room and said it's time to stand up and walk. I was ready because I was feeling pretty good. What happened next SHOCKED me. I STOOD STRAIGHT UP. I DID NOT LEAN TO ONE SIDE. MY BACK HAD THE CORRECT ARCH IN IT!!! We walked to the end of the hall. I'm not embarrassed one little bit to say I cried like a baby and hugged every nurse I could find. For the first time in TWO YEARS I can walk like a normal person. You know, my dad cried too. It was just that awesome.

In my mind it is a miracle without a doubt. Praise God for this miracle in my life.