I had my sutures removed today. The recovery looks so good that the surgeon felt comfortable removing them 2 weeks earlier than originally anticipated. I’m gonna be out of commission for the rest of today and then some. I also have a lot of recovery and medical updates on my server’s vent channel that’s too much to do here, so if you’re interested in reading that consider joining my discord

https://discord.gg/RQgpAcEQ

I’ll for sure stream again this weekend at the absolute latest!

Thank you to everyone who’s been so kind and supportive. Every day I learn a new thing about my body that’s increased my quality of life. Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, below the L5-S1 had been slowly losing function for ALMOST THREE DECADES and I’m grateful to no longer be in pain like that. I appreciate life so much more now. Recovery will be long, but totally worth it!

Our current hypothesis is that this started during the toddler years!! My mom always talked about how active I was as an infant that by 6 months I was running (there are pictures and videos of this I’ve seen during home movie days) and because of this I had to wear special leg braces (similar to the ones Forrest Gump wear) and that was the beginning of the end, because I’ve had symptoms relating to this from early childhood that I always thought was a different issue until it, too, went away post surgery. We all discussed this with the surgeon and he agrees that he thinks it’s what caused the bulge.

I wanna do a QnA sometime soon. I’ll probably post a picture about it to give people an opportunity to ask personal or even invasive questions regarding my surgery and recovery if they want to know more. Please let me know if that interests anyone. I want to be able to at least provide insight so if anyone else is experiencing something similar they can potentially find answers.

Thank you again!! I love you all so much!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️