Histrionic Progenitor Isn't it obvious?

Day 1

In about a half hour, we’re taking off for Heather’s appointment with her new spine guy, Dennis J. Maiman at MCW.

As a matter of course, he seems to prefer therapy over surgery.  This is a pretty stark contrast to the surgeon (James Stoll) who did her L5-S1 procedure last year.  At the time, the procedure was a success.  Heather regained effective use of her legs.  However, right now, it’s looking like there was a distinct lack of followup care as it seems to be common knowledge that work on L5-S1 requires a regimen of exercise therapy to prevent damage to L4 and L3.  We never heard of this until Heather’s chiropractor (Tim Bertelsman) mentioned that her symptoms weren’t from the surgery site.  Given some more followthrough, it appears that Tim was right (as always) and there is pressure and other nastyness around L4 and L3.  So, now we embark on getting that fixed.

I’m nervous.