Many of you know that I missed most of last year due to herniated discs in the lumbar region of my spine, eventually having surgery last November.
I have been having increasing pain in my neck for several months now and had an MRI a couple of weeks ago. Yesterday I went to the doctor and his prognosis was pretty grim--first option is surgery, second option is to do nothing and risk permanent spinal cord injury.
In the image below, the red arrows point to areas where my spinal cord is being compressed by discs (on the left) and bone spurs (on the right side of the immage). The doc says I am one fall, car accident, etc, away from possibly becoming a quadraplegic! With that in mind, he has removed me from limited duty to no duty--so I am stuck with doing absolutely nothing until I have surgery and finish recovery afterwards.
I don't have a date for surgery yet but recovery will likely be about six months. During that time I will be in traction to give the bone time to fuse and prevent further injury.
I will try to stop in and say hello but I can't sit at the computer much because of the strain it puts on my neck.
I guess I'll see you folks when I can...until then, keep making sawdust!
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Nah, my wife would kill BOTH of us!!!