2nd Of 2 Spinal Surgeries

Today (October 6, 2025) is the second anniversary of my second spinal surgery of 2023.

PHOTO: my 34-centimeters-long (13.3858-inches-long) incision on October 16, 2023 ... To see the photo below (if blurred by Facebook), just click/tap on "Learn more," then on "See photo," and you will be able to see it.

My first spinal surgery on September 2, 2023, was to remove an abscess in one of my spinal disks along with removal of some spinal bone due to an infection.

My second spinal surgery on October 6, 2023, took six hours to complete (8 a.m. to 2 p.m.) and involved the placement of titanium plates, titanium screws, and about a fourteen-inch-long titanium rod affixed to my spine by my surgeon due to a bone infection in three sections of my spine. My surgeon told me that I needed emergency surgery because my spine was "collapsing" due to the infection. My incision was then closed by my plastic surgeon so that the metal pieces do not stick into and out of my skin.

To this day, my thighs are still numb, but not as numb as they were. My back still sometimes hurts.

My Other Recent Surgeries:

March 9, 2022: Quadruple Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery (using a section of vein removed from my left inner thigh)
May 19, 2022: First Chest Surgery (to open my chest to remove sternal plates and clean out an infection; probably to secure wire to hold my broken breastbone pieces together)
May 25, 2022: Second Chest Surgery (to close my chest with seven sutures, leaving me with eight holes from my lower neck to my upper belly)
April 30, 2024: Right Ankle Surgery (bone biopsy, deburring, and fluid draining due to bone infection from two recent fractures)