My Current Adventure

I have been blessed recently with a great deal of free time.  My back issues have finally reached a conclusion -- I had surgery on the 8th of May to fuse two of my vertebrae, fixing a long-standing disc herniation.

Here's my MRI.

So the doctor took out the bad disc, bolted the surrounding vertebrae together, and basically gave me a dose of Skele-grow to fill in the space. (I'll post pictures of the hardware if I can get them.)

I've spent the resulting recovery time lying around, finishing some long-standing projects, building LEGO robots, and playing Super Mario Bros. 3 on the original Nintendo. I'm getting out of the house about once a day and trying to get a little excercise but still take it easy.

We'll see how tomorrow goes.