Maybe a bit morbid, but here we have the most recent status. A scan of an X-ray paper hardcopy. I just got a go-ahead for taking my brace off.

The vertebra TH9 is compressed pretty severely, given the adjacent ones it should be about 24 mm in height but is now just 14. I'm not a doctor but as an engineer, and I can tell you I don't think it looks pretty. The doctor did not seem very concerned though, so one can just hope that I won't look like a hunchback when I get older... But after all, I feel pretty okay.

Ergo: Exploration can be dangerous...