Kyle's All Or Nothing Dansco Dual Album Coin Roll Hunting Lincoln Cent Collection & Introduction

Welcome aboard. This is the friendliest site on the net for the greatest hobby in the world. I've had a similar physical problem since 1998. It changed my life but it's been relatively seamless since I can still do many of the things I used to for a few minutes at a time. I've acquired numerous new interests and am able to stay engaged. Cents are a great collectible and in coins it's the circulating coins that have always been my first love and most enjoyable pastimes.

Good luck.

Thanks nickelsearcher and I am having a great time! Thanks for stopping in!

Coinforme, it truly is! Thanks for dropping in! The pleasure was all mine!

Cladking - really cool to hear. Yea I push through for a few minutes of normalcy as often as I can as well but luckily I consider myself, well used to, a jack of all trades. I play music and other not so intrusive to me spine things lol, thanks for stopping in and kind words, it means a lot!

Dearborn- thanks for your service as well! Ive had many a good sailor buddies in my day! We are a department of the Navy you know. Not sure where it came from or if it's derogatory but I've always called them Squishy, none of them seemed to mind and to me it's a term of endearment. yes after 12 years I am there with you rating wise, I just wish they would have paid me from when I initially complained about this in '12. They should have but I'm not pushing my luck and am just happy I am where I am with the VA now. Actually they want me to have multiple surgeries at the moment, a C2-T2 fusion that I don't think I can risk until I'm close to paralysis and just recently an L5-S1 ALIF that I am really considering, having been on Short Term Disability from work due to an injury coming down a Jet. I just really don't like the idea of having anyone play around inside my body. I had a small piece of bone removed from my ankle in 2010 and it was considered not intrusive and very minor surgery and the pain that I still deal with frequently is horrible. The other surgeries all have to do with my spine and I just, I can't imagine the pain and really don't want to give my already damaged meat bag vessel any other reasons to send PAIN signals to my brain. I do think I will have to have the ALIF on my lower back because it really is affecting my quality of life, even though I am trying to make the best of it. I do believe there may be another option for my lower back that is called ADR (Axxxxx Disk Replacement) vs the ALIF(fusion) that may be better for me and the ADR is newer tech but also heals faster etc. I should know here soon what route I will be taking, I have an appointment with VA neurosurgeon and we will be talking about the surgery and also will be getting a consultation for the Top DOGS at Cedars Sinai Hospital to do the surgery hopefully, supposedly Cedars is the BEST and I'm definitely not letting the VA doc play with my spine when he can't even make PowerPoints using the most up to date imaging! This is what my spine looks like.,.,,

Indeed and thank you!

Your album is filling out nicely as well.

Thanks for stopping in jbuck, glad your around and thanks for the positive vibes!

Dearborn & coinforme , sadly I don't think there is much they can do surgically for me, I know that once I'm to a certain point, near paralysis, then the risk will no longer outweigh reward and I will go forward with cervical spine surgery. Until then the best I can do is mitigate symptoms and not put myself in a position to hurt my spine, hence my ALL OR NOTHING collecting cent hobby. Honestly, I'm loving it.

I will be adding some CRH info here that I feel has been left out in the CRH etiquette posts I've read. They talk about coin pickup and dump but don't really explain what they do from opening rolls to how they go through their coin etc. so I will be posting what I do and hopefully we can get some good knowledge on how to maximize time and not miss any valuable coins!

Let's GET It CCF!