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OK, the neck brace is off, came off Thursday. I slept Thursday away - it was hard to sleep in the neck brace. It kept cutting into my head and choking me from the front...
My surgeon said to limit weight lifted to 10 pounds, but I asked him about isolation exercise machines. He is a body builder himself so he knows exactly what I am talking about. He told me I was cleared to do any weight I want provided they have NOTHING to do with the spine at all and that I listen closely to my body. I am also to slowly ramp up the weight. This makes me happy since I can do a LOT of things on isolation machines! They also did a cardio stress test. They told me they usually do not do it but since I have been recovering so quickly they wanted to see if they could just clear me for unlimited cardio and be done with it. In the hospital, I was up and walking around unassisted a scant 3 hours after my surgery. They put me on a treadmill and told me to slowly increase the speed but stop if I felt any pain. They told me to stop at 6mph even though I was not feeling any pain. My heart rate jumped up to 140bpm or so during the test. It returned to 115 in less than a minute of cool down slow walking. I had followed their directions when I was home and added 5 minutes to my mandatory daily walk (twice a day). I stopped adding time when the walk was an hour long - it was boring me! They cleared me for full cardio at any heart rate I desired, but again cautioned to listen to my body.
Next Sunday I will post stats (after I strip off some of the "sit around and do nothing" fat I gained) and exercise weight levels.
MRI Before Surgery
Metal Plate After Surgery
Even threw all life has put in urnway ur a beast brother much respect my good freind
Glad ur still at it hope ur healing well my freind