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I am wife and mother of 3, grandmother to 4 now. Family has always been most important to me above career or outside influences. In days growing up, I think I was fairly active, enjoyed swimming and gymnastics, and continued to be until I was diagnosed with a ruptured disc in my back at age 30. I just lived with what I thought was symptoms that I thought were caused by my back. I had numbness and pain. Since I had vision problems from the time I was 9, I just attributed that to astigmatism and being near-sighted. What seemed strange was my prescription remains to this time very changing.