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Damn, Steve!! Where've I been to not see this??? Figure I'm your neighbor & all!!! Glad you're doing ok....I'm just up the road a piece if you need something! Seriously...ya need something, holler!!

Get well soon , back pain seems to hurt more than others.

Get well soon , back pain seems to hurt more than others.

Sorry I am so late, how the heck didn't I see this til now? Prayers sent for you to have a speedy and complete recovery.

thanks guys. Seems a bit better - just slow. See the spine specialist this morning - I'm just hoping that I can finally be able to have this brace off long enough to take a shower! Sponge baths take the edge off but it just ain't the same. ;-)

Jeff - thanks, but I don't have many needs these days and my wife has the kind of job where she's able to work from home so that helps. And I've certainly had plenty of offers to exercise the Vette!

Seems you're coming around. Nothing wrong with sponge baths especially if your wife is helping WINK WINK. Take it easy my friend.

Wife's DOING it... NFW I could even do it.... but I'm REALLY looking forward to running water and real soap and shampoo! H*77, I couldn't do anything anyhow...

The Doc cleared me to take the brace off for a shower on a shower chair... we have to work out the mechanics of that.... Said I'll need the brace until the end of April though. Still says no knives... It's one of those: "Hey Doc, it hurts whey I do xyz " Doc: "Well then don't do that..."

You just might have to learn how to do things differently as I have .But it will work out .As far as the chair in the shower ,you will manage .We did it when the wife had her hips replaced .

yeah, it'll be worth it. I'm just gonna sit there and bask in the nice hot WATER! lol

Holly can tell you all about that .

And so can a few more of us!
Hang in there Steve and avoid the knife if you can!

thanks - bone marrow thingie tomorrow... Taking a percaet before I go...

Only thing I'm having trouble figuring out how to wash my a$$ if I have to be sitting on the chair.... lol - I'll see how the back feels when the brace comes off in the morning. GAWD I can't wait for a real shower.

I haven't been on the lifers forum in a long time.  Sorry to read about your crash Steve.  I hope your starting to do better.

Just cut a hole in the seat like a buday... a budey...bud... one of them toilets with a drinking fountain in it, you know a squirtin' toilet

thanks bigrig - just gonna take time and behavin' for a change. .

goheer - great idea! lol

Steve:  I hear ya lol

steve, Don't know if you follow this thread anymore. I've been away from the forums for awhile. Just wondering how you back injury is coming along.

HEY! Sorry I haven't emailed you but along with running into a wall, my system hard drive crashed and the DVDs that I had it backed up on got scratched somehow so I couldn't recover. Lost ALL my email contacts

Thanks for asking! I'm doin' ok. Just went to the spine specialist Tuesday for a checkup. He apparently saw his shadow so I have six more weeks of wearing the brace. (Think hard bullet proof vest, front and back) And he has a better track record of being right than that stupid groundhog in PA. ;-) But things could of been one h*77 of a lot worse so I was pretty lucky actually. I went and looked at the place it happened and I now understand what everyone else was saying; "I have no clue how in the world you did that!" The weather in the NE pretty much sux anyhow though so hopefully by May when I'm allowed to start doing chit it'll be nicer. Just awfully boring not being allowed to do much of anything but there are a LOT of people on these forums who are way worse off than I am so while it sounds like I may be *itching, I'm really rather grateful.

How are you doin' at your end? Been really wondering how things were going but had no way of contact. Send me an email please so I have it again? smcalvin@verizon.net


Thanks for askin' and I hope things are looking up at your end!

Steve I just saw this hope your doing okay.Please give a shout if there is anything I can help with.Sorry I did.nt see this......

Thanks! I'm doin' ok - 6 weeks to go in the brace and then hopefully I can start getting back to "normal", just gonna take time. Thank heaven at least the weather sux or I'd be goin' beserk!  At least with this, I wouldn't be out doing much anyhow.