My life with pain.

I will be having surgery soon.  I had a long visit with my pain doctor.  She had studied my last set of MRIs.  She also confered with the pain surgeon who I also see.  Seems I have all the bad things a back can have.  I have ruptured discs, herniated discs, and torn discs, but they hope that will heal, I have protruding discs, bulging discs.  I have arthritis in the length of the spine.  I also have a thickening ligament cord.  If I want to walk again I have to have a procedure called MILD.  The will put me under and then my current pain surgeon will make a 1-inch incision in my back and “shred” the ligament down to the proper size.  I simply have no choice, it is this or the wheelchair and ever larger amounts of pain.  They are not decreasing my pain medication my MRIs back them up, I have a limited quality of life now and would have none with less pain medication.  Ron asked me to ask her the prognosis of where she saw me in the future with my issues.  Because of the way my bones are thickening, thinning, and growing wrong, and the trauma of my childhood it will get worse.  I will some day lose the ability to stand and walk.  Unless things change even surgery to fuse the vertebra will not give me much relief and will cause me more issues.  But I still have my computers and the grand people it lets me stay in touch with.   Best wishes to all and hugs to those that want them.   Scottie