I'm not 5'9" but I'm 5'6" and 250 lbs. Lol
I've been told I don't look it because I'm very solid. I have meat on my bones as they say. I guess that happens when you stop working AND stop smoking. August 19th was a year. That was soooo easy...I just never lit up again after a weekend in hospital being treated with IV antibiotics for cat bite. I don't miss it or crave it. Now, if only I could be that way about certain food. 🤣
Thank you, it was very hard to stop working. I wanted to work until I was 65 but had to go 1 month shy of 62nd birthday. I worked many, many years with the pain. It was so bad for 3 days once, I wasn't able to sit. I did manicures with my arms propped on the manicure table, leaning forward, because I couldn't relax my back. I could lay or stand but the only place I could sit was a recliner and I had to lay back in that. Getting out was a chore. I had to "walk myself out of it" meaning I had to hold on to the recliner arms and finally back as I was getting to upright position. I was in bed for a week once because everytime I sat on edge of bed and relaxed my back, it would spasm and I just fell back into bed. I finally went by ambulance to orthopedic Dr to get shot in lower back. I immediately sat up and the nurse said "don't you get down off that bed" and I said "I'm not, I just haven't been in a vertical position in over a week and need to sit up". I WALKED out of that doctors office.
It only took 4 months to get disability on the first try with all my medical imagining results they had. I think your meds should be enough after surgery but I'd think you may have to take 1 and a half tabs for a bit. Good luck.
Oh well, one day at a time they say right.