the mister of mine woke up january 29th in pain. lower back pain. he figured he was tight from snowboarding the day before. i led him in some yoga stretches. he said they made him feel worse. he figured it would go away as the day went on.
it didn't.
he went on with his life as normally as he could.
it got worse.
he went to our family doctor. he said he probably strained his muscles snowboarding. he was prescribed muscles relaxers, and told to heat and ice it.
his low back pain got better. however, the pain shifted and began radiating down his leg. sciatic nerve pain he was told.
so he went to a chiropractor. who told him he could fix him. on his second visit (with no improvement) that same chiropracter told him there was nothing he could do.
back to our family doctor...who prescribed physical therapy to see if they can diagnosis want was wrong.
they couldn't. but they gave him some exercises to do at home that should help.
they didn't.
it got worse.
seven and a half weeks is a long time to be in pain. and this husband of mine is not one to whine or complain. he rarely did even though he was in pain 24/7.
an mri was done which showed severe bulging discs. L4 and L5.
we were referred to a neurosurgeon.
then enters dr. clyde. the man that saved us! we met with him for an hour. the first half of the appointment he educated us on what was wrong and options to fix it. the last half was spent answering our questions.
surgery was performed 2 days after this appointment.
everything went as planned and gordon is recovery as he should be. in a month's time he should be pretty close to the man he was before he woke up in pain january 29th.
good thing too. we're going to new york in 7 weeks!
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