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 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.