I feel your pain!!
Well, maybe it's more like I remember mine. I have vertical tears in L4 and L5 I had to learn a whole different way to fight because of that. I did 18 months of hard therapy, but was able to avoid surgery because of it.
After I healed up, I spent a few years hanging out with some tough Kuntao Silat guys. This past year I have been pretty lazy though. Now I am probably going to be shifting my focus to strength, conditioning and health preservation mostly. I need to drop weight and get my energy levels back.
I have been in a weird "Funk" lately, where I can't seem to get myself to work out, but I will play with exercises here and there. I have been doing pushups, and throwing some light weight around, then screwing off on Face book....
I was doing well all summer though. It was when the weather changed that it all went down hill.