Life After Spinal Surgeries
What next?? Make sure you ask all the right questions. Is it necessary? What will happen if the fushion doesn’t take?
June 18th, 2025
I don’t even know where to begin anymore. I had high hopes that these spine surgeries were going to give me a better lease on life, to be able to be more active and spend more time with my family, doing what we all love to do. I have been in so much pain that I don’t even like to get out of bed, the thought of having to go to an appointment gives me anxiety and makes me feel exhausted before it even happens.
Life goes on around you, while you are stuck in bed and it hurts to even move most days. I still have faith that everything will work out. I am not trying to sit here and be depressed and a downer. I know that I have so much more life to live, and I am going to live it. I however don’t think that I will be allowing them to do anymore spine surgeries on me. I think my body is just tired!
Not to mention my body wasn’t healed from the first two spine surgeries, before I had to go under again. I now have lightning striking pain in my right side that shoots down my legs. I also have severe pain in the middle of my back now. I was told that once you started messing with the spine eventually it would cause the discs above to crumble too.
I just want to be pain-free, I want to be able to ride a bike and not be in excruciating pain, be able to walk even 1/2 a mile to enjoy nature and not be punished for doing so.
June 5th, 2025
I apologize for there not being many updates. I have been going through a lot in life and it hasn’t been easy, I know so many people are trying their best to stay afloat and above water.
As you may have read in my previous updates, I had major spine ALIF & PLIF surgery on Jan 7th, 2025. I recently went in on May 29th, 2025 and had a SI fusion done. The pain was so unbearable that I couldn’t fathom not seeing if this surgery would correct that. I am 7 days post-op, I now have different pain, I still have the stabbing pain where it was supposed to be corrected, I have weakness and numbing as well as a shooting pain that goes down to my right leg.
I was so on the fence about having this surgery done. I can’t put weight on my right leg for 4-6 weeks, I can’t take a shower by myself anymore, I can’t walk the dogs, or do anything. I know in due time I will be able to do that stuff again. I feel completely helpless, and to top it off, I lost my health insurance so I can’t even afford follow up appointments, seeing my pain management doctor or anything. I think I am allergic to the glue they use to seal your wounds up too. Last time I broke out in a rash where I was constantly itching, and this time it happened again.
I applied for disability and I will have y’all know they denied me. So, I call a lawyer and they told me that they couldn’t help me because I was married. I am so dumbfounded by this. How can I not receive something that I worked all my life for?
I didn’t think that life would be this hard after trying to get your health back. I want to be able to go for a drive on the weekends with my family. I would love to be able to go hiking on the trails that they do, go camping, be able to walk for long periods of time, but guess that is out of the question. I do not believe having these surgeries done to my spine helped me at all, even before this last surgery, I could do the laundry and be exhausted, I could sweep and mop the floors and it would wear me slap out.