Ok.I have back problems. Not necessarily all that bad either by the standards here. I had an MRI on the lower back and one day, right out of the blue, my PCP from VAMC (he's a good doctor, really) calls me on the phone and asks me if I want back surgery. :D :( "Uhhh, can we talk about it first?" I says. That was the first I heard about it. Well, in a week about, I have an appointment with a neurosurgeon to "talk about it."
Ok. I'm scared.
My award letter says I have DJD, lumbosacral spine. I know I have some narrowing of the discs. I remember doctor K saying some nerves are getting compressed where they come out... wherever that is.
The doctor said I'd feel better. Might help with that falling down.
But...
If not so well, I can still walk. I can still feel my feet. I know I can- they hurt.
I know this sounds crazy but if y'all could talk to people who actually know me, they'd tell you. I'm one of those people around whom things always go wrong. If I really need something to go right, be right, it won't be.
Bad off as I am, the thought of being on the receiving end of a back surgery that went wrong is not at all an encouraging thought.
Wot th' 'ell am I gonna do?!
(It's a rhetorical question, I know you can't tell me. I just needed to air it.)
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Ok.I have back problems. Not necessarily all that bad either by the standards here. I had an MRI on the lower back and one day, right out of the blue, my PCP from VAMC (he's a good doctor, really) calls me on the phone and asks me if I want back surgery. :D :( "Uhhh, can we talk about it first?" I says. That was the first I heard about it. Well, in a week about, I have an appointment with a neurosurgeon to "talk about it."
Ok. I'm scared.
My award letter says I have DJD, lumbosacral spine. I know I have some narrowing of the discs. I remember doctor K saying some nerves are getting compressed where they come out... wherever that is.
The doctor said I'd feel better. Might help with that falling down.
But...
If not so well, I can still walk. I can still feel my feet. I know I can- they hurt.
I know this sounds crazy but if y'all could talk to people who actually know me, they'd tell you. I'm one of those people around whom things always go wrong. If I really need something to go right, be right, it won't be.
Bad off as I am, the thought of being on the receiving end of a back surgery that went wrong is not at all an encouraging thought.
Wot th' 'ell am I gonna do?!
(It's a rhetorical question, I know you can't tell me. I just needed to air it.)
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