my name is Gerald and I was born three miles from here on a farm I grew up there
and I’ve been a mechanic and a farmer all my life so
I always did everything for myself after 68 years of doing everything I couldn’t
take care of it myself the pain was it was almost unbearable it was like
walking barefoot on a gravel road I wouldn’t do a lot of
things I could only walk maybe 30 feet and I had to stop and I used the walker
they felt so bad that I couldn’t sleep I’d lay there and just hope that pain
would go away my car stayed parked in the big shed it
was there so long it wouldn’t start it was like being imprisoned it was bad
especially when I had to ask somebody to do things for me that was really out of
my league, sometimes I wouldn’t even ask because I would be well actually ashamed
to ask somebody to do something for me I probably tried 20 different
medications and none of them worked several doctors with all their
medications and skills they couldn’t do anything for me there was no relief my
quality of life when I had neuropathy so bad it was so painful it was
well I wouldn’t even know if it’d be quality it was it was just
trying to get rid of the pain I learned about Nevro HFX from my wife who had
the implant the previous year then I got my Nevro HFX implant
I could feel it almost immediately most of the pain was gone
I never imagined that I would be 70 to 80 pain-free I didn’t need a walker any longer
and I didn’t use a cane or a walking stick now I sleep good I go to
bed and I’m back like the old days until the cat jumps on me wakes me up
driving is a lot easier I don’t take any of those pain pills
anymore I just have my Nevro HFX now
everything is a heck of a lot better it has helped considerably you ain’t taking it out now
I don’t want to go back to how it was without it but I don’t have to walk like
I’m on a gravel road anymore now all I look forward to is waking up the next morning