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All the best to you mate. I have been there. 5 spinal procedures including a neural simulator implant, 2 fused discs, 3 more buggered and nerve damage. Unable to walk without help for a fair while and years on my back with damaging levels of narcotics (>600mg of morphine a day). Finally on the improve after a good surgeon did some cleanup and fused the 2 lower discs. That gave me a head start, getting help to get off the narcotics was the next since they were causing nerve damage and extensive pain, and now it is just day to day toughing it out to get fit again, to some degree. It all came down to how much life I wanted back.
Set goals, don't get upset if you don't achieve them when you planned to but just go step by step and work hard for them. And never let the painkillers own you. They are just a tool. Regardless, too long on them and they can be very painful to get off.
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