Hey Buddy
I know your pain, I have ridden with you & watched you ride with it & throught it. I have 2 herneiated (?) Disks, L4/L5, L5/S1. There are days when I am just cleaning the bike that I can't get up off the floor. I just recently went through 3 weeks of the worst pain I have had in the last 5 years. I will tell you, the AZ dry heat is great, most of the time. With the dry heat both Trudy & I feel so much better. I, just don't think about it, I just do my work, try not to change my lifestyle and go ride through it. I am not yet willing to think about it. There are days out there when I'm not sure what would happen if .........
Trudy on the other hand as some really bad days, between her work injury & her MC Accident, broken Pelvis, she has days that she barely get s through, but again, she says she won't live anywhere but AZ now because the dry heat makes it so much more tolerable.
Anyway, I am sure you have been reading the posts on our other forum from Papa Ken about loosing his wife, he has been through a lot personally & now losing his wife of 50+ years. Ken is 82? I think. Talk to him, ask him how he and the Old Farts keep doing it with all their pain. He is a great person. I have ridden with him a couple times, he is no slouch at his age on that Wing.
You didn't hear me say this but maybe a Trike is the future to ease the body work load. I don't know, not going there.
Kevin (SemperFi81) may chime in, I won't say anything about what he deals with except he is a True Marine in what he deals with & everything he does with his life!
Just remember, we are here for each other, you know what you mean to us!