[Katherine0243]

Hi. This is Katherine. I've posted one time before on Mark's thread when he was in Straubing having surgery. Mark is here with me as we speak. So, I'm a little loopy as they have given me the sleepy pill but I wanted to start the tread before things got going. Just to give you a little back ground, I've had problems since I was a teenager and I'm now 41. My bottom three discs are pretty much shot - very little disc space left S1-L3. Yesterday, Dr. B tested L2-L3 to make sure it was not a pain generator and luckily it was not (L3-L4 was positive). We are going to do the ADCT procedure on L2-L3 as it has a tear and a bulge and we are hoping this will shore it up. So I will come back to Germany after they have harvested cells from the discs they remove today and grow them up. They will be transplanted back into L2-L3 in about 3 months (and maybe a few cervical discs as well). More from Straubing after the surgery. Several of you sent me messages when I posted before. Thank you all very much!