The Times - Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley

This all started back in August when I was walking my walker down the hallway and my legs went rubbery.

The pain in my back that I had been tolerating turned out to be something more serious than I thought, and after a surgery to inject some plastic into the bone cavities, I had hoped to be more mobile.

The doctors found some speckles of bone fragment around my spinal cord, and another surgery followed, with the hope that soon the feeling would return to my legs and I'd be on the road to recovery.

It's not a road for the faint of heart, I have found out.

In fact, to my conservative bent, th...