I had spinal stenosis surgery on December 20. I am feeling great and can already tell that it was successful. The right leg numbness that has prevented standing or walking for more than a few minutes is completely gone. Only 4 days but I have already stopped opioids and am now just on my regular meds and a couple of ibuprofen per day. Zero pain. So I hope this is the end of a 3+ year ordeal that was like a set of those nesting Russian dolls where you open one and there is another inside. It began with pain in the left knee that made right hand turns on skis agony. Got the x-ray; bone on bone, total knee replacement. Soon the right knee went the same way; another TKR. This was followed by a couple of great powder days in January 2020 and a few days later great pain on walking, which my primary care doc diagnosed as a groin strain. 6 weeks into a PT regimen my PT said that it looked like arthritis in the hip to her. She didn’t think I ever had a groin strain. X-ray and MRI proved her right, bone on bone again. So then a total hip replacement. Once again some initial progress with PT that plateaued and a recommendation for back x-ray and MRI. There was severe nerve compression at L5/S1, L5/L4 and L4/L3. The bone spurs causing this were all removed in a 3 hr. Operation. I am very hopeful that there are no more nested dolls.
Denis, you're just like the Mad River Glen single chair: re-built, repaired or replaced, sandblasted, straightened, and repainted. You have enough original body parts to qualify as vintage, but also enough new ones to rate as finely restored :-)
Merry Christmas and best wishes for a healthy 2022!
JimK wrote:
Denis, you're just like the Mad River Glen single chair: re-built, repaired or replaced, sandblasted, straightened, and repainted. You have enough original body parts to qualify as vintage, but also enough new ones to rate as finely restored :-)
Merry Christmas and best wishes for a healthy 2022!
thanks very much Jim and happy holidays to all. I contributed to the rebuilt single chair at Mad River and my name is on the plaque in General Shark’s pub in the basebox.
Sounds like you've rubbed a few bones on bone. Been there. Somehow, avoided the surgery but young enough at the time to do so. Wont likely be so lucky these days. So I will likely be there with you for hip/knee issues eventually. Glad to see you made it through and are recovering well. Hopefully you will get out there soon and do the things you enjoy!
I see in your profile you enjoy fly fishing, and of course skiing. I got into fly fishing about 4 years ago when the place we bought in the mountains no longer offered skiing (xcountry or downhill) in the spring/summer months. I wish I had more places to fish. I do have a stream right near me that does well early spring, but otherwise is void the rest of the year. That would be my dream retirement, a place to fish/golf during the 'off season' of snowboarding/skiing in 8" powder. :)
