Jason the gimpy III...

So Jason needs surgery; we'll keep you posted on the logistical info. We visited the neurosurgeon today and poured over the MRI scans of his back. In a nutshell, there is a piece of disc that has broken away and is pressing on the nerve that runs from his hip to his toes in his right leg. Hence all the pain. The doc needs to make a small incision on Jason's back to go in with a tweezer-like tool to extract the piece. It's an hour-long surgery with a night's stay in the hospital. Then it's about 5 days at home to recover so if we can get a weekend in there, he will only have to take 2-3 days off work. Then it's one month of doing absolutely nothing so that scar tissue can form and lock the remaining disc material from coming out. So no bending or lifting for 30 days. After that though, he's pretty well good as new. Resiliency is amazing.