From She Got Bike to the Knife - YIKES!

[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?