OP
OP
Daddy Pig
Veteran
Sorry, meant NHS but these autocorrects!
Slipped disc L3 recovery
- Thread starter Daddy Pig
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vickster
Legendary Member
Yes, you can buy your own pair of crutches for little outlay
OP
OP
Daddy Pig
Veteran
Unfortunately I thought i had been enrolled into Bupa by my company (for free) but there is a form that I have never received that I was supposed to fill in...
vickster
Legendary Member
Shame. Wouldn't be free per se, it's a taxable benefit (and some policies have an excess) but that's a moot point now
OP
OP
Daddy Pig
Veteran
Yeah it sure is a BIC but one that would have been very useful.
vickster
Legendary Member
Chase the form, you might be covered depending on the policy wording on pre existing conditions
OP
OP
Daddy Pig
Veteran
Unfortunately I don't think so by the looks of what I've seen
Ajax Bay
Guru
- Location
- East Devon
[QUOTE 5010790, member: 9609"]30k on the bike since the disaster 9 years ago, capable of hard manual graft and as pain free as anyone else. (back can still give me a bit of jip from time to time, but that happens with about everyone.[/QUOTE]
Just file this one away for when you are better, OP: cycling will be fine (in fact recommended and therapeutic) but you must recognise that gardening and decorating and any other DIY you don't want to do, needs to be avoided. This limitation on what you can safely do (especially the gardening) needs to be shared with interested (and hopefully sympathetic) parties.
hoopdriver
Guru
- Location
- East Sussex
I had a very badly ruptured - not merely herniated - disc early 15 years ago (L4/5) and required emergency surgery. I could not walk or even flex my ankles. It was very scary. My surgeon at the time, a well-known spinal specialist, said he had never seen such a massive rupture and he had done over 5000 operations in the course of his career. I make this point to emphasise that this was quite a seriously messed up disc problem and hopefully put what followed into happy perspective. The physio at the hospital was negative about my prospects of ever doing any meaningful cycling again - "I suppose you could ride to the shops, if you really wanted to", I remember her saying with a shrug, adding "but why would you want to?"
Not surprisingly I was quite depressed by this. Fortunately a young South African doctor happened to overhear her and after she left, and he could be discrete, he came overland said not to believe a word of what she had just said. He said that he had been badly injured in a rugby accident a few years earlier and although he could never play rugby again he had taken up cycling and was racing at a reasonably high level. I took his words to heart and worked very, very hard at rehab and about 18 months later did my first post-op century ride with plenty of hills. In the years since I have gone back to riding same as I always have - touring in the Brecon Beacons and Snowdonia, riding up The Struggle to Kirkstone Pass in the Lakes District and ridden many thousands of miles on the hills around Sussex. No worries at all. You'll be fine. Just take it sensibly and be patient and dedicated. You'll get there.
