When I turned 50, I said to myself, well, if this is what it's like turning 50, I can't wait to turn 60 because I still felt very, very mentally and physically good, outside my back surgery.
I've had back problems basically my whole career.
I had a minor back surgery, as minor as it's going to get.
My spine healed incorrectly. There were long periods when I'd be perfectly all right, and then there were many other times when I wasn't, when my back would give out and throw me down to the floor amid waves of nauseating pain.
I've gone through back surgery a couple times, and of course, my radiation treatments for six weeks got me to the point where I was not able to play at the level that I was accustomed to.
All the ranchers I know have had back surgery, operations on their rotator cuffs. They all have new knees. I'd like to think I belong to that breed, but I don't.
I was six years old and I had major back surgery and that paralyzed me for three months. When my back got fixed the first thing the doctor said was no contact sports and no trampolines.
I'm 58 years old and I just went through 8 back surgeries. They started cutting on me in February 2009, and I was basically bed ridden for almost two years. I got a real dose of reality that if you don't have your health, you don't have anything.
My back is permanently messed up.
I had bad back injuries; two bulging discs and a broken fragment off a disc, all in my sciatic nerve.
Right now, after having had back surgery, I am finally back to running again.
After I had prostate cancer, I had something which was misdiagnosed which led to a load of back operations.
I don't know how well-known it is, but I had back surgery in '07, and it took about two years to recover.
I had four compression fractures in my spine. They were repaired, but it cost me two inches of height.
I had a disc giving me a lot of trouble, and I had four surgeries. Then I had a staph infection, so they had to open me up five times in four months... It was in the bottom of my back, the same incision. They should have put a zipper on it.
