hi ive hust been reading your post and glad to hear your good news my self am waiting on a alj hearing i helped move a pool table when i was much younger {thought i was tougher than i truly was} and rupered 2 dics in my back dr wanted to operate then but i was afraid so i took pain pills and seemed to get some better not realy but at least able to get around most of the time then in 2000 i was working construction and fell off a forklift about 10 feet on concrete hurt my back again and damaged 2 vertaebra in my neck ive managed to get along this long with out an operation but its realy getting much worse cant realy do much dr says i realy need the operation undecided interested in information any one can give on alj hearings as to this type of problem thankx