When it was my neck

In 2024, the arm that holds the instruments started going numb.

I did what I ask every patient to do first. Physical therapy. Time. An injection. I gave it months, because I tell people to give it months.

It did not hold. And then I was the one sitting on the other side of the conversation, deciding.

I chose artificial disc replacement. Not because I do them, but because I have watched what happens to the levels above and below a fusion over twenty years, and because I still need to turn my head to do this work.

That is the whole story. I would not offer you anything I did not take.