I had cervical disc surgery (C5-6 replacement) in June 2017 after doing the Princess 5k that year - so I'm basically a year out. You'll get there! I don't think I was even walking a 5k at 3 weeks out. It took until February until I was really ready to run again (I tried in November, but it felt "weird" so I stopped). Now, I can definitely say it was the best thing I've done. We just did a 2 week Alaskan cruise/Seattle/
Disneyland trip and I'm about to head down to WDW tomorrow. I feel like a new person!