KathyEarhart; Active L; L4/5; March 2009

[Kathy]

Originally Posted by fuzzy

Thanks for sharing your early post op picture. I can totally relate to as I have such a picture of myself in form of a self portrait I took myself but I dare post it, I just didn't look very good those first few days.

Now that I know you have it, you must post it. C'mon, just do it, just do it, I double dog dare you (that's my attempt at peer pressure)

[fuzzy]

O no, I should never have wrote that

[Kathy]

I have to say, you look a bit better drugged than I do. I was wondering if your avatar was really you, now I know. I like to have a face to put to a name, I'm just nosey like that! How long you been growing your beard? The men in my family can barely grow facial hair, much less a real beard (though my step-uncle has a pretty good Santa Claus looking one he has been growing for 2 years)

[fuzzy]

Been growing it for many years. But in the last 7 years forgot to snip it at some point. The somehow coincided with backpain .

The nurses at the surgery had to figure out how to deal with it and they ended up wrapping it arround my head like the guy in the sodapop commercial "combover" (lol).

[dshobbies]

Julius has had a beard most of our married life (37 years). A few years ago, our youngest son told his dad he'd never seen him without a beard, so he shaved it off. We all discovered that a beard hides facial aging

[treefrog]

I remember when I was a kid, my Dad always had a beard, not as impressive as yours Fuzzy. But one morning he woke me up for school, and he had shaved it off. That was quite a shock, first thing in the morning, to see a face that didn't look familiar.

[fuzzy]

My dad did this when I was young, cut back his beard very short. I was shocked and asked him why he did it and he said he could not look that way in the job situation he was in. I decided to keep mine and now good question what it looks like underneath ;-) only that sneaky grey tells the story.