John:

Good looking new chair--actually looks comfortable! Considering you just told us that you are battling an infection from your surgery right now, you look damn good! All that surgery really puts the body through the wringer, so I'm glad to see you looking so well.

Thanks for sharing these photos of yourself. I think photos like these put a real face on the disease for peopleand serve as clear proof for those who don't think the disease can be real severe that yes, in fact, it can. I am not bent quite as badly as you, but before I had my osteotomy, I wasn't too far off from your degree of curvature. The picture of you attempting to look forward reminded me so much of myself; it really hit home! Amazing the creative ways we have to come up to do things that non-AS folks take for granted, isn't it?

I hope the treatment of your infection is going well and that you are feeling better. Again, thanks for sharing the photos.

Brad


He who has a 'why' to live can bear with almost any 'how'.
--Friedrich Nietzsche

Sounds like everything takes time, discipline, and patience, and those are seven things I don't have.
--Jon Dore