Looking for others who have had Discitis and lamenectomy

Hi my name is Barb. I found this forum and started reading what others had shared. Everyone is so supportive of each other so I wanted to join. In June I had to go to the ER with terrible back pain. An MRI showed I had a bad infection on my lumbar L5. After 5 days of IV antibiotics and no progress I had a lamenectomy. 13 weeks of IV and oral antibiotics later the infection was better. I thought when that was resolved I would recover quickly. The pain is still awful and there is nothing else they can do. I'm 67 and housebound, the doc says he is sorry this happened to me, not very
reassuring! It does make me feel a little better to put it down on 'paper'. It's hard for family to understand when you don't start feeling better. Is there anyone here who has been thru this that could shed some light on the longterm outcome. Thanks for listening.