[sfjack]

Hi!

Well, how I missed this forum is a mystery to me, but I did. In as such, I'd like to contribute to the forum readers my experience with having just undergone surgery July 29, 2014 to replace my discs at C5-C6 and C6-C7. First let me say that I'm doing great. Almost four weeks with no pain and everything everyone already knows we suffer from with similar conditions. I'll attach my last MRI from March 2014. I first started looking at ADR in the spring of 2012, and life got in the way, so I ended up on pain meds, Neurontin and continued suffering until I was out of time physically and emotionally. I was going to do a two level fusion, and revisited ADR and made the decision to take all my savings plus refinance my car for the equity and pay cash to get this done. My pain level had reached a point I could not walk 50 feet. I could no longer sleep at night and even the simplest daily activities were beyond reach. So I know it is really soon after surgery to proclaim permanent success, but I believe this is working. I'm walking 4-5 miles a day, am now out of my soft collar and feeling like I've not in almost 10 years of bad pain, 20 years of some pain and the last two years, feeling defeated. I'm adjusting to a new norm, one where I'm not in constant pain.

This is my first post and I'm not an expert in all the technologies, but I've read about the various designs and feel confident that the Mobi-C will work as trials and others have reported.

Oh, I'm 62 years old, retired police and military aviation. My body has been through the ringer, to say the least. One of my passions is scuba diving (dive master) and I had to give that up, plus I love mountain hiking, had to give that up. The possibilities that I can resume a normal life bring me to tears.

My surgeon is Dr. Scott Blumenthal at the Texas Back Institute's Center for Disc Replacement. He was recently named in the Becker's Spine Review as one of the top spine surgeons in history. Seriously, he made the list.

I'll leave more to report on as my recovery progresses and questions posted on this thread. Jack