Bad news for me and my 73

1320stang said:

I know the impact wasn't the same as mine, but be very concerned with your back.

I had a '67 Mustang 'vert that was T-boned by a S-10 Blazer doing 45 in 1987 in Rio Rancho, NM. I was 19 at the time, the passenger seat came loose since the pasenger door was moved in by about a foot. The passenger seat hit my on the right hip and I ended up sitting with my right cheek on the passenger seat and my left cheek hanging in the air.

They did Xrays and CAT scans and showed no broken bones, just a huge hematoma (sp?) that ran from my ribs to just above my knee and across my lower back, had 3 units of blood in it and was every color you can think of except clear or plaid. Back never bothered me, but it was out of alignment and two years later I was hit in the shoulder by a piece of equipment about 11am, I could have punched harder than it hit me, but I felt and heard a loud pop in my lower back, didn't think much of it until about 3am when I woke up screaming in bed.

Went to the hospital, where they did nothing and ended up at my family doctor where they injected a radioactive iodine into my spine and found that the cord was about half the thickness it was supposed to be between the L4 & L5 vertebre.

I had surgery and since I was 21, it went rather well due to my age and ease of healing, but I was about 185 when I had the surgery and I'm now about 285. I know as you get older you tend to put on the pounds, but I put on about 45 right after that over the next 6-8 months whan I couldn't work or go to school. I was able to float within 10 pounds one way or the other for a while then the weight slowly crept up.

I'm pretty sure if the accident had never happened, I'd be about 240ish right now, maybe a little lighter as I was pretty active before and had to stop all of a sudden. It's been 19 years since hte accident and my back gets sore all the time and its hard to do any activity where you use your back. I can do them, but I pay for it later.

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