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02-22-2010, 03:51 AM
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OMG - It hurts!!!!! so good...
Starting a new thread here. It's wonderful to post good news.
In the last week, I've: 1. Stood still wearing a lead apron for a 5+ hour surgery. (One I hadn't seen before... very interesting stuff!) 2. Walked on the beach and discovered a whale skeleton. 3. Went back over and over... kind of OCD about something exciting. 4. Sat through a wonderful play. (Tick, Tick, Boom... Jonathon Larson - creator of Rent) 5. Worked too much! 6. Shoveled sand for hours.... dug up a carload of whale bones... unloaded.... washed... carted upstairs... collapsed exhausted. All day Saturday, I thought I'd be dying... but I survived. I woke up Sunday hurting like an SOB... sore as hell... but it's a good hurt! It's all muscles that haven't been worked out like this in years. Nothing acute... just a wonderful soreness. Our balcony (60') is covered with whale bones! I posted a bunch of pictures on my facebook page... It's great to come back again and recover some of who I used to be. Diane is 2 years post-op next month... she did great too. Between the 2 of us, we have 6 spine surgeries and 8 ADR's. Our friend pictured below has a fusion that is something like T5-L5... massive, successful scoliosis fusion 2 decades ago. Not bad for a bunch of old spineys... Mark PS... leaving for Germany tomorrow! 
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02-22-2010, 04:26 AM
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Hey Mark!
All wonderful news! It is great to hear that you are back to life. Ummm, just curious: what are you planning to do with the whale bones? (oh, I know--it's for your granddaughter's show and tell when she starts school!) 
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02-22-2010, 01:53 PM
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slow and steady (with some rocky in between)
Glad to hear you're back to living again and now back to traveling to Germany!
I know what you mean re it hurts so good.. have thought that about my own body in the last so many years re just good ol' plain tired achiness vs. retching awful rotten stinkin' pain!! Big diff!!!! take care and travel well... Whale bone photo is cool.. sure looks like fun digging that stuff up tho kinda heavy some of them??
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03-03-2010, 01:09 AM
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Greetings from Heidelberg! I've been in Germany for over a week. I'm still running hard and surviving. I unexpectedly had some free days here and I've stolen up to Heidelberg to see my skydiving buddy, Dr. Jochen Feil. You may have seen in some other threads (Activ-L patient organizes skydiving record!) that he has over 2000 skydives. If things go as planned, I'll come back this way on Sunday and we'll hit the wind tunnel with him. I can't wait to get my knees in the breeze. Not sure yet when I'm coming home. There's so much more I'd like to write about but it's going to have to wait. It's 3am and I've been driving for hours. Just driving in at night, it seems very cool here. The hotel is on a tiny road with very old buildings, just steps away from the river. I'll write more when I can.
All the best, Mark
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