Jack, welcome to the forum and congrats on what seems like an amazing success. Sounds like the surgery addressed the issues that you hoped... I look forward to hearing about your continued success and return to a lifestyle that sounds like my dream... scuba, skydiving, flying, hiking....
Mark
Check out....
Activ-L patient organizes skydiving record!
NAvion N4584K
Oh yes.... this video is 1 year post-op from my 4-level cervical ADR...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oerb...k&noredirect=1
Note that my lumbar and cervcal adr surgeries have been wildly successful... unfortunately, I have other spine problems unrelated to the surgeries and and still pretty f'ed up.