It is always good to find another pet lover!
When I was in my forties, I had two spinal surgeries. One cervical spine and one lumbar spine and thankfully I turned out so well that I was able to work until retirement time. Because of a delay in surgery on my neck, thanks to my medical doctor who was an idiot, I ended up with pain in the scapula area and I also had trigger point injections into the muscles and spinal shots between the vertebrae, but neither really helped because they weren't designed for the issues I had. The surgery itself worked wonders and I wish I could have had it a week before I got to have it. I really wish you luck on this and hope things go well for you.
So far my week is going very nice. I have my lifetime soulmate and my two cats and we have a few neighbors who are friends and we visit Outdoors and we live in a beautiful area with a lot of nature and I get to enjoy that nearly every day. We have a few friends that we see a few times a week while we are out walking and we stick with only Pleasant people. It's too frustrating to deal with the other type. We are Outdoors people and nature lovers and have done a bit of bonding with others who are like-minded. We also stick with liberals. Things are too divisive now.
Thank you for starting this thread.👍👍👍
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