I've got Spinal Steno of the Lumbar region in five places, from a wreck back in 1985. I found out that running a 1969 454 Monty running at over 150 mph into the ass end of a Fire doing 10 mph hobbing it on a flat is not a good option to take, even if your not the one driving. I screamed at the guy driving, turned back to look out the front window and was stuffed under the dash bent in half in a matter of seconds. It was around 3:00 in the morning on New night, the guy with the flat had pissed someone off and they had kicked out his lights and stabbed his front drivers tire with a pick... No street light to speak of, about every 300 yards, it was on the Candy Bridge causeway. They thought I wouldn't be able to walk, then someone got smart enough to ask if I had any moles on my neck and I told them I don't know, never looked, they did, I do and no shattered neck with splitters strewn throughout my neck...
The insurance companies bailed, I didn't pursue, and put up with the pain and discomfort for years, until about 4 years ago and it got to be too much. Started doing less and less, then I started loosing feeling in my arms and legs at odd times, like walking, sitting, laying down, or the pain that you wish was a toothache so you could live with it would come on.
This one doctor wanted to cut me up and remove parts of my vertebra, and do fusion in two places in my neck and then 4 places in my lower back, but he couldn't even remember my name batten visits, so I ran fast and far and didn't look back, this new guy wants to try pain management, So...
he's a freaking sadist I tell ya, a regular Vlad the Impaler
