Only tangentially related, and hopefully not a glance into anyone else's future:

I've lived with back pain for almost 3 decades now, but avoided surgical help.
I'm now 8 months post L5/S1 fusion, lots of PT, but still can't surf.
(well I'm about to try again today, but not with a lot of confidence).

patience, I guess.

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"The truth is incontrovertible.
malice may attack it,
ignorance may deride it,
but in the end,
there it is." -Sir Winston Churchill

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Edited: 11/27/2022 at 07:13 PM by JOESTRUMMER

Keep working at it WG!!

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