From She Got Bike to the Knife - YIKES!

[Whip]

Hi all,

I haven't been able to ride for awhile because of my back and I wanted to share that the day after She Got Bike I'm going to have back surgery. Which is good because I'm in a lot of pain - but She Got Bike will be my last road ride for awhile.

I've been up to my eyeballs with stuff to do to getting ready for the event so I haven't had much time to think about the surgery or riding :)

If any of you have had back surgery, I'd love to hear what your thoughts. I'm hoping I'll be able to race again in 2009, but I don't think I'll be doing much in '08 because the doc is worried about crashes.

Whip

[Kalidurga]

I don't have any input about that type of surgery, Whip, but I do want to say good luck. I hope it goes very smoothly and that you recover quickly!

[Tuckervill]

Diskectomy and laminectomy at L4-5 in 1994 and again in 1996. (Not because it didn't work but because I re-injured myself.) I could have ridden a bike as soon as I was recovered (but I didn't have a bike, then). The only thing I've found that I don't like to do is jump on a trampoline. (I haven't done it since I tried it the first time after the second surgery, so I don't know if I still don't like it.) Jumping kind of made me feel like I was compressing my spine there too much.

I think you'll be back on the bike before you know it. You're probably in much better shape than I was having just given birth in late 1993, and suffered a couple of years of PPD combined with the chronic pain before the 1996 surgery. (Exercise? what exercise?)

Good luck. I hope the pain relief is instantaneous for you like it was for me.

Karen

[Whip]

Diskectomy and laminectomy at L4-5 in 1994 and again in 1996. (Not because it didn't work but because I re-injured myself.) I could have ridden a bike as soon as I was recovered (but I didn't have a bike, then). The only thing I've found that I don't like to do is jump on a trampoline. (I haven't done it since I tried it the first time after the second surgery, so I don't know if I still don't like it.) Jumping kind of made me feel like I was compressing my spine there too much.

I think you'll be back on the bike before you know it. You're probably in much better shape than I was having just given birth in late 1993, and suffered a couple of years of PPD combined with the chronic pain before the 1996 surgery. (Exercise? what exercise?)

Good luck. I hope the pain relief is instantaneous for you like it was for me.

Karen

Thank you so much - you just made me feel so much better.

[Tuckervill]

You're going to be all right. :) Call in all your favors and take really good care of yourself. Update us, too, okay?

Karen

[divingbiker]

So, Whip, was the surgery successful?