He's had surgery once already, the doctor pointed out at that time that it would be the first of many because each disk they "repair" it makes the one above and below weaker, until it gets bad enough to warrant a complete disk replacement. It also makes it very easy for his back to "go out".

He learned yesterday that the disks have not ruptured, but are bulging, he'll get the shots in the disks to see if that works. If not he'll have surgery again.

AnotherDay - I think you may have me confused with someone else, I do not recall posting that I hated him... There have been threads where I talked about the trouble we had in our relationship when our kids were small, but we've learned to deal with those day to day things.