Dolfan-I can relate

[Pastor Don]

Tim, I just read your post about your back. This is the first time that I have said anything to anyone outside of the church and work. For sure I don't know which way to turn. Would appreciate all the prayer I can get right now.

Just after Thanksgiving I got up in the middle of the night, took two steps from the bed and went to my knees. Pain was shooting, burning and felt like a knife in my lower back. It radiated around my waist and down into both groins like I was being pulled apart like a wish-bone.

MRI reveals two ruptured disks one at L-4 L-5 and L-6 L-7 with no spinal stenosis but moderate impingement at both neural foramen.

I have been going for the shots which help short term but was not getting to much better so the last shots that I had the Dr mentioned that something didn't look right and he wanted to do another MRI on my cervical spine. Those findings read like a horror story to me.
Ruptured disks at c-5, c-6 and at c-6, c-7 gross spinal stenosis at both levels with the c-7 nerve root being severely impinged. This news I just got yesterday.

He says that with the kind of damage I have he would suspect damage to the thorasic spine as well so I will be having an MRI of that soon.

I wish that I could say the pain was not that significant but truth is right now it is excruciating. If one eases just a little, then the other is hurting.

The pain is constant and the worst part of all is how it is making me feel. Any one that knows me at all knows that I am an outdoorsman, I love working, the more physical the better and I am finding myself not being able to do much of anything right now.

It seems like to me that our enemy has found the spiritual assault will not avail so he has resorted to the physical. From the looks of your thread we could all start a support group for one another. LOL

I will give you a promise, every time I start hurting or it gets worse I will offer up a prayer for you. May God bring healing to ALL of our backs soon!

God bless...

[Linda]

Pastor Don and Dolfan, I'm so sorry that you both are suffering with back problems. I really believe that God can heal both of you and will be praying for such, as I know all of our Jude2 family will be also. May you both be pain free!!!