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tmvincent30
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do you think i would be able to cut the grass with a riding mower?
Hubby is tired from work and i just hate to see it growing.
Hubby is tired from work and i just hate to see it growing.
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tmvincent30
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Thanks Emily and M&M
You crack me up Emily. Well i hope you all wont be to mad at me but i did it. I am so tired and frustrated to sit in the house with no job or doing anything. It was ok i know where the major bumps are in the yard and i can go only as fast as i want.
It was no worse than the little accident i got into tuesday. I was backing up so a truck would not hit me and the lady behind me wasnt watching and i backed into her so i figured that jolt would have done it if anything.
And beings when i called the dr he ddint think it was important to call me back so i didnt think this mattered either. but i have been feeling fine and i do right now.
But i want to thank everyone. Oh and i have a 14 year old son but i guess the point is i wanted to do something and stop feeling so worthless around the house do the housework but that just isnt enough i guess i dont know.
You crack me up Emily. Well i hope you all wont be to mad at me but i did it. I am so tired and frustrated to sit in the house with no job or doing anything. It was ok i know where the major bumps are in the yard and i can go only as fast as i want.
It was no worse than the little accident i got into tuesday. I was backing up so a truck would not hit me and the lady behind me wasnt watching and i backed into her so i figured that jolt would have done it if anything.
And beings when i called the dr he ddint think it was important to call me back so i didnt think this mattered either. but i have been feeling fine and i do right now.
But i want to thank everyone. Oh and i have a 14 year old son but i guess the point is i wanted to do something and stop feeling so worthless around the house do the housework but that just isnt enough i guess i dont know.
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mznell
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Well, it is your decision...but you will be very angry with yourself if down the road a few weeks, you suddenly have lots of pain. Sometimes it isn't one activity but the cumulative effect of several "unauthorized" activities or movements that do us in. 
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ms_west
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How far are you out from surgery?
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ms_west
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Okay....Type A.....please don't over do. Right now with my diagnosis of Failed Back Syndrome I have replayed in my mind things that I did that I probably should not have done and I keep asking myself I wonder if I had not done that would I be in the place I am today.
I want you to know that I do not mean to be negative sounding. I am not saying that you are going to have Failed Back Syndrome. I only wish the very best for you and want you to think positive. However, doing things like this early on may lead to bigger things down the road and those bigger things just might end up messing something up or setting you way back in recovery. I just don't want you to wonder later on/have regrets like I am now. I would do alot of things differently if I could but hinRABight is 20/20.
Wishing you only the best !!
I want you to know that I do not mean to be negative sounding. I am not saying that you are going to have Failed Back Syndrome. I only wish the very best for you and want you to think positive. However, doing things like this early on may lead to bigger things down the road and those bigger things just might end up messing something up or setting you way back in recovery. I just don't want you to wonder later on/have regrets like I am now. I would do alot of things differently if I could but hinRABight is 20/20.
Wishing you only the best !!
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lfoster21
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Well, I guess what is done is done, right? So, all I can encourage you for the future. Like others have said, it can be a cumalitive of things that will damage things later. Actually, things can be damaged at any point, but it may take some time before the damage is bad enough for you to feel the pain.
Like Pepper, I too have multiple failed fusions and now am dx. with failed back/lami. syndrome. The surgeon can not figure out what went wrong. I too remeraber wondering if I began driving too soon, went back to work too soon...who knows, but I did what the Dr. said and things just did not go as planned. I remeraber asking if I could go to the amusement park, if I did not go on any roller coaster or things that bumped into each other. My surgeon said absolutly no. I would have been happy to just go on the swings, carosel and Farris wheel etc. Who would have thought the stop's and go's would be enough of a jolt to do harm.
Good luck,
Lorie:angel:
Like Pepper, I too have multiple failed fusions and now am dx. with failed back/lami. syndrome. The surgeon can not figure out what went wrong. I too remeraber wondering if I began driving too soon, went back to work too soon...who knows, but I did what the Dr. said and things just did not go as planned. I remeraber asking if I could go to the amusement park, if I did not go on any roller coaster or things that bumped into each other. My surgeon said absolutly no. I would have been happy to just go on the swings, carosel and Farris wheel etc. Who would have thought the stop's and go's would be enough of a jolt to do harm.
Good luck,
Lorie:angel:
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tmvincent30
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I understand what you are saying pepper and i know i had one that was said to be failed back syndrom.
I was aggervated at the dr cause he never bothered to call me back when i cammed to tell him i got in the little wreck and it was more of a jolt than anything on the mower.
I often say i shouldnt have done this or that and maybe my first surgery would have taken as well. And i know i have to let this one heal.
I do appreciate all the insight on this.
Lfoster it is so hard on me not going on the rides at the amusement park and my sister and all want to go this summer and it is going to be so hard on me. See i ddi all this the first time so again i think what if didnt do that would i have had to go through this surgery?
I was aggervated at the dr cause he never bothered to call me back when i cammed to tell him i got in the little wreck and it was more of a jolt than anything on the mower.
I often say i shouldnt have done this or that and maybe my first surgery would have taken as well. And i know i have to let this one heal.
I do appreciate all the insight on this.
Lfoster it is so hard on me not going on the rides at the amusement park and my sister and all want to go this summer and it is going to be so hard on me. See i ddi all this the first time so again i think what if didnt do that would i have had to go through this surgery?
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tmvincent30
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I am 11 weeks post -op
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mznell
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I wouldn't do it. The mower will be a bumpy ride, jarring your SI joints, and everything else all the way on up your back. You really don't want to mess up what healing has occurred thus far. Just let the grass grow, or hire someone to ride the mower for you.
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BlueAtlas
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I'm with M&M. Gotta be a bumpy ride, even on a level lawn. I don't think I would risk it. 'Course, we only have a push mower, so there's no question around here that I'm not going to do it. It's hard work even for hubby and teenaged sons!
Do you have any neigrabroadorhood teens who'd do it for less than the "professionals"?
If not, I say let the grass grow. You can pretend you have your very own jungle. Take a lantern and go exploring when it gets dark. Play hide and seek with your kiRAB (give them a whistle just in case you can't see them when they stand up). Throw down a blanket and have a picnic with the waving greenery up around your necks. You know.... make lemonade!
Emily
Do you have any neigrabroadorhood teens who'd do it for less than the "professionals"?
If not, I say let the grass grow. You can pretend you have your very own jungle. Take a lantern and go exploring when it gets dark. Play hide and seek with your kiRAB (give them a whistle just in case you can't see them when they stand up). Throw down a blanket and have a picnic with the waving greenery up around your necks. You know.... make lemonade!
Emily