I want to share my experience now that I'm on the other side of spinal fusion surgery. I have read about other people's problems following the surgery, and I greatly feel for them. I'm learning it's not always an easy street once surgery is completed, particularly during later years as people age.
Right now, I feel positive and hopeful about the outcome of my surgery, that involved L3,4,5, and S1. At five weeks later I am regaining my strength and mobility while just starting to reduce my medications. I sleep through a good part of the night, though for the first few weeks, spent a good part of the night in a recliner. I can now walk half an hour with the aid of my hiking sticks with no pain or major fatigue. Previously, I couldn't walk three minutes to the mailbox without deep fatigue and plenty of pain. I now look forward to hiking to the library and grocery store in my new neighborhood. I am starting to dream about the travel possibilities for my husband and I ( once we get past this horrible pandemic). I can enjoy my brand new grandson and being a grandmother, as I have dreamed about for so long!
I feel that the surgery will certainly have been worth it all, even if this just gives me ten, (maybe 20) good years where we can enjoy good health.
I am so grateful- I feel I have regained so many years!