Surgery

So I had a pretty significant surgery last Wed. removing hardware from my spine that had been used to correct kyphosis 9 years ago. It was time to take it out as the bottom two hooks were loose and probably contributing to my chronic pain and one of the rods was even broken. The procedure was a sucess and lasted about 4 hours. The surgean said the entire thing had bone grown over it and removing it was akin to "removing rebar from concrete". They are too bent up and stripped to put back to the way there were inside me, but I did play around mounting the hooks and things on the bars. Maybe some kind of windchime?

So I'm a little sore, and plan on being that way for another month or so.






It really is pretty crazy to think that all that crap (15oz of it) was attatched to my spine for the last 9 years and I've been able to do what I do. Modern medicine kicks ass.