Random happy post

[Tarmacsurfer]

Don't often post personal shit on here, but I'm so happy about this I'll shout it from the rooftops. Feel free to leave the thread now if you simply don't care

Few years back I was diagnosed with a degenerative spinal condition, bone is in a bad way as well as a couple of disks going pop. No point operating and the general consensus amongst the bods at the Royal Orthopaedic hospital was not so much if I was going to end up in a chair, but when.

Well, fast forward to now. Spent the last six to twelve months working on an assortment of "alternative" approaches to pain management and core exercises to strengthen the pelvic girdle, lay off the opiates and other pills and just use breath/meditative controls. This had been going well, and a couple of months ago I was sent in for another MRI to see what state the prolapses, spinal canal and bone degradation were in. Go in today to speak to my specialist and get told that apparently the problem is "fixing itself", the disk extrusions are breaking up and the vertebrae themselves appear to be stabilised. All in all, the last six months has shown such a marked improvement that if my next quarterly checkup shows the same trend I'll be officially discharged and well on the way to normal

I'm fucking ecstatic, with any luck I'll be able to get around without the crutches and more importantly be able to move well enough to hold down full time employment again soon. Although I'll admit that I will sort of miss the spacker sticker, it's so nice being able to park nearly anywhere and just put a card in the window
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[Mister James]

Excellent news, congratulations!
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[Paivi]

Wahey, that's great news! Back problems are not nice to live with and your story has inspired me to take a better care of mine. My problem is that my back is too straight, instead of a gentle S-shape, mine is a fairly straight I-shape. I noticed when I was doing yoga and pilates again that I was in less pain, so will now restart them.

Hope you'll keep getting better and better!

[JonB]

Ah that's frigging excellent! Glad things are on the up!
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[BanditBitch]

Thats really good news Glad your getting better

[Nb]

Good news dude.
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[Teaman]

Fantastic new mate, hope it carries on like it is doing
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[Annabella]

Bloody brilliant news
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[ken]

Don’t know you but that is great news I hope you make a full recovery and get back into full time employment, again well done and good luck





Who needs disability living allowance and car tax exemption cert?

Long as you got you’re health
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[Laura]

Thats brilliant mate!

I can still remember the first day me and Bella met you at the bradford arms meet.
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[yambabe]

That mean we'll see a bit more of you in the coming year then?

(Although I think you should keep the crutches on your bike, then the next time some little scroat tries to nick one you can scare the shite outta him by chasing him and beating him with it.......... )
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[MarJay]

sweeeeeet.

Doctors are always pessimistic, they do it to avoid litigation. So if they are saying its better, then it must be getting better!
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[akaDAVE]

That was a great post to read. It makes me appreciate my health more.
It must be better than winning the lottery for you. Keep up the positive attitude and good luck.
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[TheShaggyDA]

Nice one. There needs to be a "Most Excellent" rating
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[sagiliam]

congrarts dude!!! Was a nice cheery-up read as well!
keep well
ls

[CortezTheKill...]

Don't know you mate but I'm totally made up for you. Nice one.
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[queen of string]

Nice one , hope it continues to improve.
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[Paddy Blake]

Good stuff i hope the next test is as good

Paddy.

[Andy C]

nice one!!!! light at the end of the tunnel . I really hope that you go onto make a full recovery

Have you been able to ride while this problem has been occuring?
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[Johnny GSX-R]

Chuffed to bits for ya, always nice to hear good news.

[Blackrhythms]

Fantastic news - good on you! Especially, as Siggi said, you used 'alternative' methods to help yourself! Hope it continues to go so well for you!
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[m0l0t0v]

That's some really good news. My mum has diabetes and multiple sclerosis (she's stuck in a wheelchair) and recently she started to lose sight.

She was scared because it could be eitehr the diabetes or the multiple sclerosis that's causing it. Question is, which one? If it's diabetes then she could lose her sight completely, being blind and stuck in a wheelchair is just not veyr nice at all. If it's a MS attack then it will go away ni a week or 2.

She went to the Hospital today and was there for 9 hours. And they're 99% sure it's MS. so that'ssome good news. IT's hard enough for my mum being stuck in a wheelchair (since 7 years ago), nevermind being blind and on a wheelchair.

I'm just relieved to say the least.
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[ram_doom]

Thats actually cheered me up somehow great news for you, fingers crossed for recovery
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[P4LERIDER]

Nice to hear something good for a change... good luck to you..

[Tarmacsurfer]

Dredging this up as I hit a personal milestone today:

Almost a year on, a brief update. Whilst things aren't "normal" as such I tried an experiment today. Been building up slowly but decided to go for it. Cycled and walked approximately 7 miles and can still move at the end of the ride. As to how well I'll function tomorrow remains to be seen, but that's the joy of working from home