Baby's First Sober Spinal Surgery

Or: how an experimental novel nearly left me paralyzed

For most of my adult life I’ve lived with a slightly-broken back. The human spine has some soft circles of padding in between the vertebrae, and one of mine - one right above my hip - has a tear. A little bit of the soft stuff inside pokes out and hurts me, sometimes a little and sometimes a lot, sometimes poking a nerve and making me feel it in my legs…