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Thank you Andrea and Chuck for your well wishes.

The pain prior to this surgery is so much different than prior to my PLIF that I am second guessing myself which is also hard. Prior to my PLIF at every movement I was in constant bone crunching muscle spasms. So much so that I begged for an epidural 3 weeks prior which did help a bit.

THIS pain, although there is bad back pain, is more in my legs and more so when I sit. So, it's not constant. The back pain itself I suppose would not send me to surgery (however, it's bad at times but not the spasms.) The leg pain is. But because it's not a constant thing shen it's absent I think I could live this way without the surgery.

OMG!!!! Why do things have to be so hard???? Oops, thanks for letting me ramble - again!