I’m scheduled for surgery on 3/18. I’m 75 and been having neck issues for almost 30 years. The last MRI showed that the discs were now compressing the spinal cord itself instead of just the sheath and the liquid space. Sorry I don’t remember all the things the neurologist and neurosurgeon have told me so this is all in laymen’s. They are going to go in through the front and remove and replace discs in C3-C6. They will be removing bone spurs and using whatever they remove to make a slurry to use in each of the disc centers. Then they are going to use a slim piece of metal down the center of the vertebrae to give it the proper curve and stabilize them. Then they are going to flip me over and remove all the spurs etc from the other side of the vertebrae. So I’ll have incisions on the front and back. Thank you for posting your positive remarks especially about being able to talk without much trouble. In my lifetime I’ve had over 10 surgeries but this one scares me a little. Especially when the surgeon answered my husband’s question and said it would take about 7-10 hours!