After two months of physical therapy in summer of 2019, my doctor wanted to get an MRI on my lower back. The results came in late October of the same year.
“The good news is that your spine is stable and you probably won’t wake up paralyzed some morning.”
My doctor’s first words, verbatim.
As I’d been worrying about that little matter, that was somewhat of a relief to hear!
Continue reading “My spine on steroids . . . a tailbone tale”“The bad news is you have degenerative disk disease with one disk virtually obliterated, another in bad shape, a bulging disk, spinal stenosis and multiple pinched nerves. You’re in for it.”
His next words or close enough . . .