[Blairsara]

Maria,
I'm so sorry to hear about your toes. You're exactly right... who'd think that with everything that's been going on that your toes would crap out.

I don't want you to think that you should do a fusion because of what's going on with me. I'm in a very low percentile with everything... I think out of the 5% of the people to end up with facet joint pain after ADR I'm part of the .05% of people to need a revision. Also, I think that the other discs don't allow as much movement as do the Charite. But I'm really glad to hear that your back is doing better than it was when I met you.

Tomorrow I go and see Dr. Fuller about time release pain meds. Both Dr R and Dr L recommended that I go on them because at this point there is nothing left to do besides the surgery. I'm worried that I won't be able to get through these next two months of school. I wish that I could just have the surgery now and get it over with but I cant. Oh well, I've lasted the last 6 months, I can go another 2!

Is Dr. D doing your surgery on May 10th? Are you going to have the bunion surgery? Again, I'm glad that you're doing much better! I hope that it continues to get better, and that you might not need the surgery. That happened to my mom, she had a bulging disc hitting her sciatic. She went to Dr. D in the early 90's and he said that she could have surgery or do nothing. She did nothing and it went away after about a year or so.

Anyways, I hope you had a good weekend, and good luck.

Blair