I can also use crutches around my living room. I can drive, I've got a mobility car, its auto with hand controls. I just want to get back in my manual sports car. At least my gf can take me out in it lol.Ouch! I hope you recover fully, or at least enough to enjoy your car. I have a friend who had 1 back surgeries and is on crutches but can drive. He spent quite some time in a wheel chair though