Happy New Year to you all too. I am doing ok. but tried today to make it all day without taking any pain meds, didn't work. I took some about an hour ago. I ended up having several bonse spurs removed from L2 all the way down to S1. The L5 S1 nerve was being pinced so badly that it almost died. So the doctor tells me that as long as I feel a burning pain, then the nerve is coming back to life. It feels just like a hot poker from the fire place is being put right at the base of my spine.
Sorry I have not been around. I have been in the hospital for a few and then sleeping a lot since I've been home.