Old game systems

[Zrothum]

the original ogre tactics for the win

[Crucial]

I ****ed up my back in January '06 which caused my spine to not only curve off to the left, but at the same time instead of having a gradual curve to your back like you're supposed to the first foot of my lower back or so is perfectly straight up and down causing an assload of pain from about the middle of my back straight down through everything. So I went in for surgery on April 19th figuring I'd be good to go back to work on June 7th or possibly the 19th at the latest. About three weeks after the surgery I decided that I was going to become really active in my sleep and jerked around apparently hard enough to reherniated my disc that was just operated on. Basically I'd been working since December with a hernia after I knew something bad happened when doing something on my own that should've been done with someone helping me. So after going through the surgery and having everything fine aside from inflamation (which I was on steroids to reduce it which helped a ton). On the last night I was taking the steroids though I did something in my sleep that caused everything to go ****ed up again so they had me do an MRI and it showed that the disc was out again and that there was more inflamation then than there was before so I had a few options. I could get injections of steroids once a week every week until they see fit that I'm good to go again without them. Get some epidural block done which is only temporary and I'd end up having to redo surgery in a few years anyways or do the surgery and hope that it works this time. So I wanted to redo surgery because I've had these same options given to me by doctors in the past (which I went the fourth route, do nothing and hope it corrects itself). I finally got fed up with the pain and told my Manager at the beginning of the year that I was going to do the surgery no matter what because the pain was starting to get intense at times (hurt to breathe in from time to time). Originally I planned on doing it during the Summer so I could be done with school since I'm trying to go back again. I called up one of my doctors who I hadn't spoken to in a year and asked for the names of the doctors she gave me the year prior and the following Monday I was getting calls from another specialist saying to come in on this date.

Now here's the kicker, I knew something was funny at the beginning of the year when my right leg was steadily getting weaker compared to what it was (after the December issue with trying to do something alone) and basically shrugged it off. I walk into the doctors office and the first thing he tells me when he comes in, after he has me trying to walk on my heels without much success, if I don't do surgery soon I'm going to lose loss of my right leg within the next decade. I'm basically floored because I'm only 22, I should be out and able do do most things that 40 year olds used to be able to do and then some. Right after blowing my back out in 06, I had already lost most strength in my right leg along with most flexibility. I worked myself up to be able to gain strength back but I was still majorly hurting and made them release me to go back to work. I go back to work and some guy tosses an empty cardboard box at me and it catches me at the ankles nearly making me fall down. I just got stronger from there and decided that I'd be good to go. Now a year later someone's telling me by looking at my MRI from the year before that I'm going to eventually lose loss of my right leg. He even went over a few of symptoms I was having from it as if he were living my life for the last year. So I went with the surgery.

Now I'm looking at surgery #2 on June 20th, and my work leave is approved for 8 more weeks after that. If it doesn't hold this time around I have to go in a third time have them remove the disc entirely and fuse the next two in line together so that it doesn't do it again. I was looking at a 15% chance of reherniating the disc after the first surgery and I did it within the first three weeks. This time it'll be a 25% chance and the third surgery doesn't sound fun. So I'm stuck here for 10 more weeks from now and since the 360 broke that cut off a game from my list of things to do, so I decided to pop in here for a while.

So I wish it was maternity leave but it isn't.

So whos up for a game of basketball?

[Tantangel]

If you don't mind me moving slower than a snail and I can be on the winning team I'd be game. I just have to sit every few minutes and can't move a whole lot because it hurts.

[Dale]

I'm down.