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Jerome,
I'm glad Clara posted the info on Julie and someone else posted the Torch link....wonderful story and wonderful website.
Let me add that I have also struggled with significant neck/back pain and am about 30% disabled with permanent impairment from a car accident last year. I've not lifted weights in probably 6 months or more. It is EXTREMELY frustrating to me that I cannot lift the weights...espcially knowing what I was capable of..and what I've done/accomplished in the past with BFL.
What I have learned over the last year is this....do what I can...when I can...where I can. I'm not the originator of that thought..the great BFL champ Stephen Cater came up with that one...but it is an important concept to grasp.
You should NOT do exercises that your doctor would frown upon...I'll just say that upfront. But for me personally I know what levels of pain I can take and have a tendancy to push myself really hard despite what I know will be painful consequences.
Focus on the CAN...not the CANNOT....it is truely hard to get past the CANNOT and 'victim' role that we can assign ourselves when things happen that our out of our control(my accident..your surgeries)...but if you can just reach past that into what IS possible...then you will find yourself willing and able to make permanent changes.
Feel free to send me email anytime...
Good luck,
Stephanie
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