Welcome to the site, Pattie ! I think that you will find a bunch of good information here and many great people.

You may want to look at this portion of the site regarding your spine condition: http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/forum22.html

I know it is cloudy today (I live in Riverside and you are in Orange County), but I suspect that we will all get some decent weather here in So Cal very soon!

-Vic