I have had so many surgeries I stopped counting. Several spinal fusions, bone replacements, pins, plates, therapies, rehab work......etc. A person can get quite cynical, kind of 'doctored-out' after a while. After years of the same spinning 'hamster-wheel' of medical treatment, it got quite depressing; as a reasonably young person, with a long life still ahead of me, all I could think about was an increasing cycle of disability, cycling ever downward toward full incapacitation. A series of f...
