Laminectomy check and done! I had the
surgery a week ago. When I woke up, I had NO pain. The terrible pain in my hips and legs that had plagued me for months (actually years) was completely gone. All I had was soreness from the incision that went away with Tylenol. I'm starting to learn to walk again. This surgery was life changing. I just celebrated my 79th birthday. 
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So happy for you. 
I’m 78. Wish I had the guts to have a facelift because physically I feel like I’m 40. Ok, correction… wish I had the MONEY to get a face lift. 
Anyway, congratulations and have some great adventures on your new hips and legs!
I am glad for you. I hope things keep on getting better! 
....like the citizens of so many other countries. I just started Medicare and was putting off so many visits to the doctor because of America's (republicans actually) hatred for its own citizens. Best of luck in your continued and hopefully quick recovery 
My pain was never in my back, but was referred to my right leg. At the time I realized that I had never really known what pain was. Mine was a back injury from work, picking orders in a food warehouse with no cases generally more that 40 lbs.
I spent 1 night in the hospital and went home the next day with a bottle of hydrocodone for pain which I never had (within the next year I threw away the unopened bottle). My surgery was on February 2nd, and within 2 days I was walking a mile (when I had the staples removed and told that to the nurse she said, "Who told you that you could do that?"
I walked and walked further as long as I had no pain and I never did. My scar has long faded away.
Congratulations on the success of your laminectomy.
you are loved here, Raven! 
* unless you live in So California, Hawaii, certain parts of FLA, etc. It's already there!
So glad the pain is gone. Now you can just get up and zip around!
