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Mr George Spink 2022-07-07 Person 5 5 0

I saw Mr Spink on a number of occasions back in October 2021, at a point where life was unbearable due to the amount of pain that I was under day to day due to (what we soon found out was) an incredible bulging disc that had herniated and compressed my nerve. It had left me with so much Sciatic pain, that I was miserable and it was affecting life and work. I was taking ridiculous amounts of medication which would not always work for me depending on the severity of the pain on that particular day. The ultimate dismay was the fact that my once active lifestyle which always helped maintain a positive mental health for myself had just disintegrated as the pain had taken hold! 36 years old and laying around was not the life for me! So, once the MRI had been done initially, he gave me some options along with a caution appropriate to how invasive the approach would be. 1. Keep on with Physio etc 2. Nerve Root Block 3. Discetomy Sensibly, I opted for the Root Block as Physio was not helping and it had been a problem for some time now. I was given an appointment for less than 3 weeks from that date to come back in as an outpatient. The root nerve block was done in November and although it helped, it did not take the pain away completely, I was able to move around a bit more than I had been doing and I did not need the pain meds as much as I had done. A couple of little winners in there that I was grateful for. I was forewarned that it may be either little/great/no success. Fast forward to March 2022, I had decided that the block had worn off and I was back in a situation as before, mobility had decreased and meds had increased and I was now not able to perform my work duties so I got booked in again and had an appointment in place for April in which Mr Spink agreed it was time for another MRI and fully supported that it was time to explore the surgery route. The following month, May 28th to be exact, I arrived at Spire early in the morning ready for surgery. I was so nervous but excited that it was hopefully going to be a day that life changed significantly for the better! I was not wrong! The team were amazing and I saw Mr Spink that morning ready for surgery. He also checked on me later in that day and let me know how it had gone and that he was pleased with the results. Fast forward 6 weeks, life is so good! I am active, pain free and smiling. Not all heroes wear capes.....some wear masks and scrubs!