Surgery went very well, there was a bone spur that he filed down, some disc fragments in the nerve cavity (the thing was degenerating there in the first place) and he cleaned all that up as well as what he went in for, and the only thing that worried him was that the nerve was exceptionally red (well, moreso than he was prepared to see). Pain was gone that afternoon, and right now my back is a little sore but that's it.