Fortunately for my wife and I we had a relatively small mortgage on our home and about 225,000 in equity. We qualified for a re-finance and doubled our mortgage balance to do this surgery. We stretched out the payments to 30 years so it wouldn't be too much more per month. In the end, I felt like if it was financially doable then I was not going to let money determine who/where I had this done. I know many don't have that option and I empathize with them.
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2001 bad fall on ice playing hockey
Apr 2001 lami/discectomy L4/L5 (large rupture)
Aug 2001 lami/discectomy L5/S1
Coccyx dislocated / same fall (Cannot sit)
Aug 2011 pull-start generator - unrelenting low back pain - can only stand for 30 min
Nov 2011 -rhizotomy - makes things worse
22 hours/day in bed
June 2012 - present receiving facet injections every 4 months, only last one helped somewhat
L3-L5 ActivL Surgery w/Dr Zeegers April 16th
Doing great!!!!!
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