Originally Posted by CXS

First, thanks for the support! I had the surgery last Thurday which makes it about 3 1/2 days ago. It was pretty uneventful for the spine surgeon but the vascular surgeon ran into a mesh that was put in many years ago when I had a few hernias repaired. For some reason the mesh was never listed. It made things more difficult but he succeeded with the only cost being additional swelling for me. The spine surgeon said I was 100% bone on bone instead of finding some tissue remaining.

I asked to be taken off pain meds after the initial recovery. It's now 48 hours w/o any pain meds and I anticipate going home after PT today. Not surprising is that the long haul recovery is about 18 months but by 3 months I should be in pretty good shape.

It looks like I'll be wheeling when the snow melts!

Again, thanks to my T4R friends and support!