Back when Bruce was teaching at F.C., there was an incident with a student that caused his back to get out of whack. It was a bulging disk in the lumbar/saccral area. He probably should have immediately dealt with it then, but instead put it off and tried to deal with the pain. Eventually it did get bad enough that he went to a dr. and a physical therapist. By this time he had numbness in his toes and couldn't even walk properly. They didn't do much to help him but the worst of the pain subsided for awhile.
Last fall it began flaring up again and went from being tolerable to something that had him in absolute agony. He got a referral to a neurosurgeon who took scans again and immediately scheduled surgery. He had a lumbar discectomy on December 28-just in time to use the last of our "good" insurance plan. According to the dr., it was a more complicated surgery than he'd expected due to some calcium deposits in the ligaments around the disc. He may never recover feeling in his toes, as that may have been permanent nerve damage. However, he is feeling so much better these days and suffers no pain.
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