Did I mention I'm back on my bike? It's been 8 months since my back surgery. Not 100% yet but working on it. Rode 15 miles 3 times over the past 10 days. Can't wait to be fully recovered. #spinalFusion

How's life after a #SpinalFusion Just past my 5 year anniversary from hell...L4-L5 ...Downhill snow skiing yesterday first time since then! Oh joy such a magical day!

My apologies that I haven’t been active on here for a while!

On Monday, I had my very first #spinalfusion surgery and it is… awful. Literally would not recommend. 0/10.

However! I am getting better! I’m currently in a rehab facility and I walk with a walker, I climbed up a flight of stairs, I can use the bathroom by myself, and my strength is great!

Hoping to be out of the facility by Thursday or Friday where I will continue to recover at home!

got everything up and going and this was my 3rd and final song earlier. Maybe more later, but needed a short break. Enjoy the muppet-flailing, bingo-wing flapping lightshow at 264 days post-surgery. :blobcatrainbow:​

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA0fGGXf0NY

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#kinesiology #SpinalFusion #WeHackHealth

well, ≈1½ hours (15 songs over two session) of recordings including last night, and no sound captured from the PS4 because I borked the #OBS input settings at some point & didn't do a preflight check and catch it.

On the plus side, less distracted by the music on the playback, so it's easier to see I'm still skewed (head/eyes, shoulders/arms, hip/feet all slightly different angles relative to each other) and short targeting from the left side. "Thanks, I hate it. =-{ "

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#kinesiology #SpinalFusion #WeHackHealth

There are days where it feels like a continual chemical intake juggle just to function like an reasonable adult...

Had enough strong coffee and sugar, now to smooth it out with green tea. Later I'll have some of my usual energy drink, assuming I'm going to do a VR_session.

I can keep my cardio reasonable (a little winded coming up 3 flights of stairs, but for now, reasonably so), but I'm still having the leg control and stamina issue. Went for a walk of only a couple of blocks, and the numbness & footdrop are a noticeable problem by the time I get back home.

I'm in dire need of some sort of stretching for my leg muscles, but I still can't sit on the floor (getting down onto the floor and back up is hard enough trying to do cables or clean) so yoga seems an iffy option at the moment.

I did about an hour of #SynthRiders last night, mostly on spiral mode. I might need to stop trying for the Master difficulty and step back to Expert for some of the songs if I keep obstacles turned on.

Still more doable for me than a bunch of the #BeatSaber songs with walls on, though.

And I'm _STILL_ fighting with tracking in BeatSaber. but not SynthRider. I'm beginning to think it's my camera location and tracking angle calculations, however BS adjusts PoO internally outside of the system setting. In addition to the persnickety lighting issues for tracking. smdh

I know, all things considered, I'm doing ok. Just frustrated I'm not further along or more ~functional~

sometimes walking around, it feels like my gait must look like one of the BD_Atlas robots just before they fall over. I hate it. I used to be able to hike off trail in the woods.

no videos from last night (needed a practice night w/o the added shuffling back and forth to the computer for the file captures, since the #postcards project kept me busier sitting last month than I expected) but I have some from the 14th to look through, or ​maybe I'll try tonight...

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(reposting my intro with hashtags)

45, #queer, #geeky. T10-S1 #SpinalFusion due to #DegenerativeDiscDisease, #scoliosis, and damage done by #PsoriaticArthritis. I also have #fibromyalgia, #HidradenitisSuppurativa, and a brain full of everything from #depression and #anxiety to #ADHD and #PTSD. Hobbies include #FFXIV and indie games, reading #fantasy and #sci-fi, and #sleeping. So. Much. Sleeping.

curious if anyone has had #spinalfusion surgery.

i'm having a fusion done on L5-S1 on 12/12.