Hello Mark
I am so sorry to read all you have been through..Welcome on this forum..Hope we can support you.
We are all people having been through spine surgeries, procedures or simple lumbar punctures or epidural for minor surgeries, or for having a baby.
Arach has no way back. Surgery is not always the best way to correct spine problems. Too often, NS "forget" to tell us that we have lots of muscles and strong ligaments that are the support of our spine, of our vertebras, as between each spinal process are ligaments that are what makes our neck, our spine move. I can send you illustrations for showing you... Images on MRI are 2D and we are 3D...My cousin ahd similar problems, told of being paralyzed if doing nothing...It was ten years ago, after he saw the disaster I was in..He did not go to surgery, he is not paralyzed and is even better because he found an excellent rehab center...
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