[Maria]

Ok for most who've had great lumbar improvement thru ADR and/or whatever surgeries this will seem like no biggy tho to any of those who know me or have read my low back chronic pain endeavors maybe you'll get what this means to me:

Tuesday I had an appt. that involved 4 hours of sitting w/an occasional getting up and moving to another room.

Believe it or not I sat nearly the whole time, without fidgeting, without standing up even 10 minutes and lastly and without pain pretty much!

When I left I was a bit stiff and came home and took a walk. The next day I didn't have any increased pain or much pain to speak of at all.

There was time when something like this would have been impossible and even if I did do it my back would have gone out for a few weeks either that same day or the next.

I am so hoping that my L4 area will autofuse even if it's just the facets. I don't think that's happened yet tho that has happened at L5 and made a big diff for me in the last few years.

I don't recommend that anyone NOT have surgery based on what I'm saying just it's pretty damn nice to finally be able to sit for some length of time even if it was just one day after 30 years of back pain and sitting being one of my number one "can't do" activities!