I had my one month follow-up appointment with my neurosurgeon on Tuesday – got told again: “gold star for recovery” so far! They are very happy with my progress, and gave me clearance to start physical therapy, allowed…

As those of you following my Facebook status updates know, surgery went very well (the main back/leg pain is gone – albeit with a new back pain from the surgery itself), and I am back from the hospital,…

Back in 1997, as I left school for the summer, I ended up with a pretty acute case of mono, which forced me to have a couple of stints in the hospital. During the first case, the Detroit Red…