For the past two years, I've been waiting for the next two days of my life. The past two years I've been searching and hoping and praying and working towards the solution, a surgical solution for my spine. I am nervous, I'm excited, I'm hopeful, I am scared. Let's be really honest,fear actually enveloped me. When I was diagnosed with degenerative disc disease, I actually fell into depression. I'm not able to enjoy my wife, enjoy life, be outside,be active. I'm no longer going to be able to be the Steve that I once knew, the husband I was to my wife. That was really hard.
That depression and sadness of knowing your back is essentially broken. This is not my story. When I met with Dr. Hashmi, he had explained to me that there's a procedure called ptp and that that was the best procedure that would allow him to fix my spine and how excited he was to tell me and educate me on ptp. I thought Steve would benefit from ptp. Um, in addition to it being minimally invasive, he had a single level disease and his spine actually looked extremely healthy. Um, the second thing is he's extremely active and muscular and he had been managing this disease so well, uh, before surgery that the muscle sparing approach that PTP allows, uh, would greatly benefit him.
I'm excited to see, like when they say, okay, stand up. I'm like, yeah, I don't know about that. And then actually stand up.
It's incomprehensible to be able to stand up straight and not feel pain. I don't know what that's like anymore. Nose over toes. Use your apps. Nice. Where up? Nice job. Have a walking. You're walking Nice and slow. Same concert. That makes me happy.
My biggest fear through the entire journey was that I was gonna have to get surgery and then I was gonna wake up with him. Unbearable. Pain. Pain. When I woke up, I didn't have any pain. Immediately after the surgery, I noticed that his wellbeing and mental state, um, we're drastically different. You seem happier and brighter and it was just great. He had a big smile on and he hasn't lost that smile. Since It's been three months since my surgery, I'm mind blown by how I feel and what I'm able to do. Today.
I feel phenomenal. I'm gonna be able to enjoy life again with my wife, and I can't tell you how happy that makes me. I've had an outstanding experience with PTP In my own procedure, I'm talking to everybody I possibly can who's experiencing debilitating back pain about ptp, about my procedure and my story. I would say to the next patient that there is a solution.
There is more life to live, and there are people who've spent their lifetime working on your cure, working on your solution, working on the answer to your problem. I waited too long for this procedure, at least two years of excruciating, debilitating, depressing pain, and I didn't have to wait that long.
My recommendation for the next patient who's suffering from back pain, who has the opportunity to meet with a surgeon who's been trained with PTP is to make the appointment as soon as possible. There is hope you can get your life back. This isn't the end of the story.
