You are really the bionic man! I admire your tenacity to keep 'getting back on the horse'! Your wife is a lucky lady!

And I figured out your 'handle'! Very clever! However, my name is not Bob, my 'handle' is the combination of nicknames of my husband, myself, and my daughter!

I wanted to mention different type of therapy that I recently discovered. It is 'Functional Manual Therapy', and I won't try to explain it but I included two links where you can find out more information. I only have gone for three sessions, insurance doesn't cover this : ( so it gets costly. But I believe that if I had the time and money it is possible that I could have avoided surgery! I was so close to the surgery and I am in so much pain that I decided to go through with the operation.... but I will return to this as my resources will allow. I definitely believe it can help my underlying condition which the surgeons have said indicate that it is likely I will need one or two fusion surgeries down the road!
It might be worth looking into.... It is relatively unknown in general, and of course surgeons aren't very encouraging when they are not part of the picture! Anyway, good luck ...I think you have plenty off of that, and you really are amazing!
Keep pumping the iron!! : )
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