i've been having a good month really for reflecting back on how I used to be, compared to now. On Saturday I went for an 8km walk, and while I was totally wiped out tired afterwards, I was hardly sore! I had some drugs as more of an "i'm uncomfortable let's take something", but the next day I was feeling energetic and back to normal. Monday I went to the gym and had a good workout, Tuesday a 5km walk, Wed 3km, today a personal training session at the gym that wore me out, but I feel good. I'm not sore! I can't believe it. I"m getting so much less pain than even a month ago, which is great cos it means I'm still improving. I'm noticing tiredness this month more than anything, but maybe it's because I"m able to do so much more that I am wearing myself out in positive ways. Either way, I feel positive, and the best I've felt in a long time.
In the spirit of doing more activities, I'm trying to do the Waitakere walks again now that the weather has picked up and sun is shining. For those of you who are not local, the Waitakere's are a hill range that is all bush, and has a lot of nice tracks running through.The hilly country makes for some challenging walks which are great for building fitness.
If I could just have the energy that I feel inside, so that I could do more!
Summer is approaching, which is so exciting because I can participate in it this year, instead of sitting in a lazyboy chair feeling sorry for myself while everyone else was out having fun and forgot about me. Boo Hoo.
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Pre-op 2000

This is before I had any surgery on my back. It's looking at it front on. You can see the base of the spine is where it connects to my pelvis, and then how the top is out of line with the bottom, This made it look like I had one big hip, because my ribcage was off to one side.
Pre-op 2007

Here is how my spine looks now, you can see that the part that has the rods is straight, then at the top the unfused part goes off at a different angle. The surgery tomorrow is to fix that, by putting a rod from about 2 vertebrae up and 3 or 4 below the junction.
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