I have been dealing with chronic back pain for the last ten years. The doctors have given me less than a year before being wheel chair bound. I currently walk with either a walker or cane. I have stenosis, ddd, L3 is crushed, and L1-S 1 are all herniated or bulging. I have exhausted injections, physical therapy and am managing on narcotic pain medications. I needed to have hardware put in my spine but am too overweight. I am having bariatric surgery to lose weight so I can finally have back surgery. This whole ordeal has be dragged out because I'm a single mother of two young kids. I also live 800 miles away from my family. Luckily after the geriatric surgery my parents are coming to move my kids and I back with them so I can have my multiple back and knee surgeries.