Thursday Doctor Visit Results

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!!
Well, Chris has officially hurt his back. Thursday morning he and I went to the back doc to look at the MRI film. Luckily he did not hurt his L5/S1 disk (the one that has been fixed 2 times before). He has a small rupture on the disk above it, L4/L5. The doc said he would leave it up to us on how we wanted to handle the injury. The rupture is not big, but perfectly placed on the disk to be pressing up on his nerve. This is causing pain down his right leg, especially around his hip. At night I can hear him roll over because he moans from the pain when he moves.
Anyway, the doc said we could wait it out and see if it gets better or have surgery to remove the rupture. The doc described the incision to be less than an inch and to be a same day procedure. So Chris and I chose to schedule surgery for March 2nd and do both, wait and see if it gets better or fix it then. The doctor said we could cancel the surgery the day before if we liked. Either way, Chris should get over this quickly and then hopefully get back to being active like he wants. He is talking about riding his bike to work again, crazy boy.
We still plan on going to the conference next week. The doc said Chris should play golf and then he would fix his back after. Funny! All is well with us, hope all is well in your families too!