DDD [Degenerative Disc Disease]

In 2008 I had a 7 1/2 hour #surgery at #SantaBarbara #CottageHospital by one of the country’s top neurosurgeons. He repaired four major defects including a congenital deformity. He corrected a bulging disc and fused the L4/L5 vertebrae to relieve the pressure on my spine which was the source of my debilitating incapacitation and the most extreme pain I’d ever experienced. Why it presented itself in 2008 a few months before I turned 50 couldn’t be determined. Sleeping incorrectly, a slip and fall, rough sex, a voodoo curse were among any number of possible triggers. All I knew I went from normal walking and running to suddenly shuffling my legs like a crippled old man.

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