Man predicts future in 1965. 100% true.

ah yess, that's going slowly but surely

crazy experience, woke up on saturday last Oct and it felt like someone was poking me in my right lung! I thought 'maybe I'm having a heart attack?' as it runs in the family, but I'm pretty fit, I didn't know, so i went to one of the big 5 hospitals down here .. they couldn't figure anything and told me to go home

A few days later the pain hadn't receded at all,, and now I was getting shooting pains down my legs and was having trouble walking ... and when shit gets like that, you go to the hospital with a helipad!

why? becoz they have the best emergency drs, simples!

so I did exactly that and went to the Alfred, within 15minutes I was in an MRI and came out of it to a waiting surgeon who said "well, we've found the cause of your pain" ....

I saw the papers in his hand and I just knew the were "release papers" for surgery! He told me i had an abscess in my spine and that I "needed to have surgery soon" ... when I asked "how soon?" he replied, "we're prepping a surgery now ..."

ahhh .... but then he said the majick words "if we don't do it in the next 24hrs you probably won't walk again!"

"righto!" I said, "do what you do do best doc" and 10mins later I was downstairs in an orthapedic surgery -- it's very industrial looking with the table that's a big cross so they can "lay people out flat, arms outstretched"

My last memory was the surgeon showing me the xray of the infection .. and then I woke up in recovery!

they had to cut open seven vertabra to clean out all the infection, which means I have a 30cm scar down my spine from my shoulders but it's what they cut underneath that's where all the healing is going on and it's pretty sore and strange as the numbness goes away and feeling/function slowly returns to all over! i.e. I couldn't feel my stomach muscles for a few months post op

the effects of them cutting so much muscle along my spine meant that I've spent the last 6mnths learning how to walk again .. to look at me today, you probably wouldn't notice unless you saw me trying to run, otherwise I think I'm walking ok, but it still 'feels weird on the inside'

it's hard to explain, even to my very friendly GP it's kinda like your arm 'waking up' except it's other parts of my body, it's weird but getting better every day

But I am still spending 80% of my day lying down for the time being, but considering I couldn't walk without a walker, post op, I'm doing pretty well now, it just HURTS when I move too much, so I'm not. But I'm pretty fit 75kgs and it occured to me today as I walked back from the shops that if this surgery was done on anyone who was well overweight, they'd be fucked, totally! I can't imagine how they would go through the physio I've done since the op!

It's a sobering thought, shit 10% of the people who get epidural abscesses die from the infection! That's what the drs were most worried about, infection spreading, and that it might 'spread' to my heart/brain/blood etc I had to take this antibiotic 4x a day for 4 mths when I got home, and the shit is The Most Difficult to swallow capsules ever made! idk why the fuck they are so sticky but half the time I couldn't swallow the mofos and they're burst in my throat with the most foul taste

fuckin hell, now I think about it, swallowing the fluclox (the antiB) was almost as bad as the surgery

so, there's a slice of my life. One things for sure, had i been in the states I'd have one Huge medical bill! millions most likely!

gotta love Oz and Gough Whitlam for creating our medicare system, in that respect

I have a a few motorcycle accidents where I've ended up in hopsital and I'd be bankrupt becoz of them if I lived in the US! let alone this recent event!

I hope that's the end of it, I plan on being 90% 'recovered' within a year and so far so go, i'm 2/3's of the way right now ;D

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