"James" wrote in message
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Glad to hear you came out in one piece. Hopefully all the rest is
temporary. I missed the details of your surgery plans. I have back
issues as well. What did you have done?


Thanks James!

The official name of the surgery was "disk decompression" with a bone
opening procedure (I don't know the technical name of that operation).

The surgery concentrated on L2-L3, the spinal area where a herniation and
bulging of the disk was causing my leg numbness and leg/back pain.
Additionally, the bone channel which the nerves pass through had a very
small opening (a condition I had since birth) compounding the problem. The
doctor cut away the herniation and opened the bone channel allowing more
room for the nerves to pass through.

You can be in the best of shape and still develop back problems.