Interesting stories about your respective surgeries thanks for sharing. Definitely a contrast from the statistics which is encouraging. Seems like the majority of the surgeries were warranted by blood flow and not so much neuro symptoms. Wondering if that is indicative of the good results. What sort of prognosis are you getting for potential failures. Doing pull ups and pushups is encouraging but how can you avoid scar tissue and other recurrence. My fear would be making my situation worse or undoing the surgery. If the surgery were to "fail" how soon would you know? What is the follow up work up to track complicstions or relapse ??