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?