I am scheduled for low back surgery on my L5S1 on Dec. 20th assuming my physical checkup they are requiring prior to it goes ok. I blew four discs in my back while transferring a patient doing home health care and from lifting a niece who was too heavy in 2006. I had two surgeries in end of 2006 and beginning of 2007 and did every other treatment possible. I was doing good until in 2012 my family had a dog resort for 12 yrs and I was our groomer for six years but then began having horrible pain from it after six years so had to give up doing that part. Over the past two years, I have had the most excruciating sciatic pain from the same disc as previous surgeries herniating again. Again I have tried every possible treatment and now it has come down to disc fusion that I have been trying to avoid but with the feeling of a butcher knife stuck in my butt and alternating pain and total numbness down my leg and into my foot and having to start using a cane to walk cause my leg is so weak, I finally repented to surgery. Please keep me in your prayers. Thanks