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GoodRaisin

(9,568 posts)
11. I know what you mean.
Tue Jul 16, 2024, 01:09 PM
Jul 2024

Lumbar stenosis, if severe enough, can be indeed very crippling. If I get up and try to walk even just across the room sometimes I can’t make it without having to sit back down again.

I’m 71. I was diagnosed by MRI needing surgery on L3, L4, L5, and S1. It is risky surgery. My neurosurgeon said he might be able to help me but warned he could also hurt me. So with that risk I live much like yourself, with a stairlift to get up and down my 2 story house and a network of rollators to navigate through the house and yard.

I can’t change any of this unless I take a big risk I haven’t been willing to take. The one thing I can still control is my mind and how I accept what is. So I have to deal with it mentally, and the way I do it is to keep thinking about the good things about my life, and to stay busy despite my crippled existence.

Anyway I just wanted to say that I hear you and know what it’s like.

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