George Eads Grinned And Beared Broken Back Fo...

George Eads Grinned And Beared Broken Back For Years

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CSI" star George Eads suffered from a broken back for 12 years before doctors discovered the spinal injury. The actor, 42, reveals he hurt his tailbone during a basketball game in the late 1990s but refused to go to the hospital because he wasn`t adequately insured.

But back pain forced Eads to get his aches checked out by a doctor earlier this year - and he was stunned to be diagnosed with a very serious injury.

He recalls, "I was playing basketball about 12 years ago and I fell and hit my tailbone and both my legs went numb. I was a struggling actor sleeping on a futon and dirty clothes, didn`t have any insurance or anything, so I just grinned and beared it and my back was really hurting for a long time.

"Then I went to the doctor and they took an X-ray and said, `When did you break your back?` I think my pain threshold is a little bit high."

Eads was advised to undergo major surgery to correct the problem, but he had no idea he`d end up with screws holding his spinal cord together after the summer operation.

He says, "They said they could fix it but it required surgery and it was a spinal fusion. I had the surgery done and had a post op check up a month later and my X-ray was stuck up behind the doctor. I said I felt great, and said, `Well, it could be worse, I could be that guy (in the X-ray)!` The doctor said, `You are that guy!` and I was like, `I didn`t know I was going to get five screws in my back!` and he replied, `Well, what did you think a spinal fusion was?
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