hi all, its simby. I can't believe i finally found you all. I have missed you guys so much since the other board went down. This is great. Now i have a ton to read. But i am so glad you are all (mostly) here.

hugs,
sims

Isn't it wonderful to find this!!!!!! I found it a couple of weeks ago, and was so happy! I also missed it sooooooo much! I think everyone has. Tell us how you are, and I hope all is well!
Carolyn

Good to see you,Sims! I was real happy to find this the other day, too. It's like an old friend just called to say hi!

Let us know how ya been, and take care.

I just want to drop in and say HI to Sims, Carolyn, and Barb. Welcome to the new BT forums. We are all getting to know each other once again. I do know you by your user names. We hope you like it here and there are a lot more places opening up each week. It is somewhat different but more are coming in all the time.Glad you found us.
Hugs,
Billie

hi all,
hehe i am grinning ear to ear right now and i am not even awake!! hehe

I am now into the 13th month post fusion. I am about 90% fused. The xray looks pretty good, but very strange to me.
I have just had my first two morning where i had NO back pain for a little while. It was amazing.
Unfortunately (isn't there always a but?) both my legs are not good. I have the burning, cramping, charlie-horse, numb feelings all the time. Its looking like this is the way it will stay. Better some days, worse others. I am in pm now with my pcp. Only on the same meds (vicodin, flexaryl, trileptal).
I won't take anything stronger in the pain med group. In fact, when i go back in december, we are going to assess my tummy and see if there is an nsaid i could take instead.

And so it goes. You all know the drill. I do believe i am one of the very lucky. I am getting my life back little by little. I know i won't be 100% ever. But i bet i can get to 75%.

hugs,
sims

now off to see how the rest of you are doing.

Hi Simby....
It's so good to hear you are healing well. I'm sorry about the lingering problems with your legs, but all in all, it sounds very good. I've followed your posts for years (so it seems) and watched you going thru so much pain. Wasn't it you that remodeled your kitchen and had your counter tops heightened? I once owned a house that had previous owners both over 6'. They also put in higher countertops. I loved them.

It's really nice to see more and more names from OBT. I hope everyone makes their way back. Lots of us had a hard time without our friends/family connection. I was advised that the owner of TCL registered here on 8/29. It seems odd that it wasn't posted on her forum to let you all know. Put out the word to those you may know that are still needing the forums for support, love, friendship and lots of knowledge. We need to get this place built up even if BT does come back. No such thing as too much of a good thing!

I expect many will go to both boards.......but that's just me taking a wild guess.

Be Good to yourself and enjoy the gorgeous Fall in the NE.

hi shotspine,
yes, i am the one that had my cabinets raised. Best thing i did! Its wonderful not to have to bend in the least to wash dishes (yeah, no diswasher allowed here sigh).

I found out about this site from tcl. I believe there is a link to here at that board.

its nice to see so many familiar names.

hugs,
sims

Hi everybody. I have back/spine and about everything else.lol the back is shot, what can I say.

I posted mostly on CP but I know you all by name. Jo6 or Julia, I keep trying to Keep Jo but it keeps growing.

Simby the news from you is good news. hope it keeps on getting better.

Billie, I'm glad your surgery is over but I read one day this week you were going to have to have hernia operation? Billie, my heart goes out to you. You have had more problems and sorrow than anybody should, but you just keep going. I like your spunk!! Hope things will go well ((((Billie))))

All of you, so happy to see you. I think this place is on google now and thats good. It's kind of been word of mouth. I like it, Dr.Grohol seems to be such a caring person. He has worked hard to get this site up and perking alone.

Good to see you all and hope to see all of you more.
take care, Jo

It is good to be here. I didnt know that this was a differant board. But when I went to login they didnt have my email addy on file. I used to be houndsluvr...now I am longdogs4ever.

I just found out about this new board! Familiar names!!! gjzh tipped me off, since I was hanging over @ the Back Pain forum. Saw a few familiar names over there, too. I dumped the Les C. in favor of my alter ego this time...

I hadn't visited too often @ the old one anymore, until I NEEDED it & it was down like a rock. Sims! Good to "see" you again. Sounds like you're getting along pretty well.