Barbara Aurora, singer and certified nurse’s assistant

“The first thing an opera singer thinks about is ‘Oh! My voice!’ When I first met Dr. Weber and he explained to me that he was going to go through the front of my neck, I thought about running out of the room. But, look, there is no scar. I can now sing and function, even though I had incredible injuries to my spine.”

“Dr. Weber saw me as a whole person, what my occupation is, not only singing, but also a recently certified nurse’s assistant. I am 67 and I still have to earn a living.”

“So, instead of proceeding with an entire spinal surgery at once, Dr. Weber created a process of a series of procedures that has allowed me to get on with my new life. I tell people, ‘This is a doctor that sees with his heart as well as his mind.’”

Dan Echols, a hands-on owner of an excavations, demolitions, homebuilding and subdivision company.

“I fell four feet off a semi, flat on my back. I was finally referred to Dr. Jed Weber. I was taking over 15 hydrocodone pills a day.”

“Jed Weber recommended this new surgery, minimally invasive
lumbar fusion with rods and screws, because he understood that what I do for a living requires physical labor, running pay loaders, backhoes, dump trucks.

“The lumbar fusion was a huge success. I woke up ten hours later. Everything was fine. I have been in no more pain since. No leg pain, no back pain, no more headaches!”

“Being in that kind of pain changed my life. You can't
get your shoes on, there are marital things…and getting into your truck is almost impossible. But drugs are not the way. Jed gave me a vital way to be relieved permanently of the pain through lumbar fusion.”