The need to feel well again!
 

Hello,

I ask myself from time to time (what are people looking for after surgery.)

Is surgery a way to get ones life back?

If so, what makes a person go back to that risky life style again, and again?

Is there really no right answer?

Why risk it?

Freedom to choose ...... free will?

Lets think for a second, what really brings humans to take risks?

The dangers are in front of all of us, and for some reason we keep doing it over and over again ......

Can we change our own thinking? If so, the answer lays within all of us..... :)

Todd

I just think most of us want our old life back. I was prepared to make some adjustments after surgery, but, only if I needed to. I really wanted to go back to all of the things I enjoyed before surgery. If that means taking risks then, so be it.

Then fear and common sense stepped in. The people who know me know that I have returned to a full life after ADR. I have bicycled many, many miles since my surgery.

What people do not know is that I have not resumed skiing, either downhill or cross-country. I have a fear about my solid metal discs. The idea works like this: These discs are metal on metal design. There is no longer any cushion between my vertebrae and, I have solid metal between. What happens if I fall on my rump? I am imagining a possibility of the impact being so hard, that my vertebrae would fracture. Imagine what that could do to the rest of what I have left in my life. That is a risk that I may not be prepared to take. That is why I am very careful walking in the Winter and, I have stopped doing some of the things I enjoy.

Any answers to my concerns?

Terry Newton

You've got 24 discs to act as shock absorbers. (Justin HAD 25)

If you remove a few of them, you still have 24 minus a few.

There are risks involved in all sports. If you've never been on the snow, you might want to have to get through the pain of the learning curve. If you are already a skier, it should be safe to ski within your range. (Understanding that you can be standing in the lift line and get clobbered by an out of control snowboarder (sorry if you are a snowboarder... I couldn't resist.)

It's up to you. I think the risks are pretty similar with the discs... except that most of us with some problems that have been fixed, still have other problems in our spine.

I skied black diamonds 4 months after my 2-level Charite. (OK... only Bear Mountain black diamonds... not too extreme!)

Mark

Snowboarding
 

Hi to all

Mark funny you mention getting hit by a boarder. I have been taken out twice, once in a lift line and the other after he caught air and hit me in the head.I was lucky it was my head,no damage

Going to ski with my son on Sunday double green only.

Life is a risk every day. You could of been on that plane...

To all good thoughts.

Gil:)