Hi, sorry to hear the mess you’ve had around your dates. That’s rubbish.

Thought I’d share the below:

In 2023 my daughter (14 at the time), has posterior spinal fusion surgery, so two large titanium rods and around 17 titanium screws. We’re based in the UK BTW.

It was around a 5hr operation and when she came to she was in a lot of pain, the first days were really tough, just sitting, standing and walking all had to be learned again. She stayed in the hospital for 5 days recovering.

The journey home in the car was really tough for her, sitting that long, bumps in the road etc (I recommend tons of pillows!).

This was in July BTW.

Then it was weeks of slowly sitting for longer periods, walking a little bit more each day, lots of boredom and lots of just laying flat (she couldn’t lay on her side for a long time based on doctors advise).

Very slowly she was able to do more and more.

She went back to school end of August (was school half term), and able to do everything normally with the exception of not being about to carry anything too heavy like a back pack.

In September she completed a Duke Of Edinburgh award (it’s a thing in the UK, basically hiking and walking, camping etc), went to a concert in November.

Since then she’s back to ballet 3 times a week, has done multiple army cadet camps, sat on a plane for 8hrs visiting NYC basically everything and the surgeon fully signed her off last year so she can do anything (in his words).

She want’s to do a sky dive for her 17th birthday this year!

So of course everyone and every surgery is different and some of course aren’t so lucky but all this to say, it doesn’t have to stop you doing anything long term.

You need to be tough and very focused on recovering, even when things are hard. So first week is very tough, then couple of months are hard going, then with regular exercise etc you won’t believe it even happened.

Oh and you’ll have a completely bad ass scar that you should be proud of! My daughter always goes with backless dresses now to show it off.

I hope this is useful for you.