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I stammered for several minutes...
Might be the first time in my life I don't have a snappy comeback.

Welcome back to Monday fellas.

Morning gents

Corey! They told me you were gone.

Got up this morning with a nearly pain free back. Who said drinking is bad for you. Fireworks a bit up the road last night, mostly not visible through the trees.

I guess I should've drank... I'm on the ground this morning... sciatic nerve got pinched when I was turning on the shower...

It's been so hard. Sometimes it feels like he's still here with us.

but we know he's dead.

dead.

And those cigars are going unsmoked.

Gonna be hot here as well. Currently 64 degrees, on its way to 97. But I know a guy... he's got a pool and I got cigars and beer, so...

Our assosiation has 4 pools, but they're 'appointment only', 1 hour slots, 3 families at a time with masks and social distancing right now.

Supposed to be hot as hell here all week, but because of my assigned white privilege guilt. I will not run the A/C in my truck.

I knew he was in a very high risk category.
That’s the only reason I sent him that recent bomb.

I know I gotta be in that will...

wrong forum noob

That sucks, I know that pain exactly!!! Mine has been lingering, just below the "baby steps and take your breath" point for a little over a week. Been a year or so since mine had me in that bad of a situation and when my wife finally took me to the "walk-in" clinic, they told me that I would have to go to the emergency room next time, GRRRRR! They actually couldn't do anything for it, just the fact that my blood pressure was SO high (both numbers, with the lower number above 100) that the hospital would want to keep me for an overnight and get my pain to subside (likely to try and dose me with morphine and that's NOT AN option, makes me MEAN AND even worse!) I'm really trying to avoid any odd movements, twisting at the waist, leaning over and picking things up, etc. It's likely something odd that is done and then hours or even days later, a disc finally slips just enough to get on that nerve!!!


Get better SOON!




OH, and G'day and new week to all, plus, DOn't be BAD!!!

Hope it's better soon Opie. I have been there just about 50 years of my life. Gotta be careful with every movement and sometimes you have no idea what caused the latest flair up. Been in and out of hospitals and chiropractic offices so many times. Muscle relaxers and pain meds is about all the docs ever did to help.

Rub some dirt on it.

ever since my mid 20s I started getting interesting back issues. A slipped disk between S4/S5 has been a reoccurring problem. When I was young and tried ignoring it I ended up with a left leg which would go numb within 10 minutes of sitting, the inability to flex any of the muscles from my ass cheek down to my calf on that side, and would have to lie flat on my back and drink alcohol until I could stand and go to work. Fortunately I bartended at the time, so drinking to function was acceptable. Stretching is the only thing that helped that time.

It slipped a number of times in my life, but I remember another reasonably major slip in my 30s, it probably slipped out from lifting people in rugby... After months of back pain (much more severe than any other random breaks from playing) I finally went to the Dr because the season was over, and I was starting to wonder if I had something wrong with my stomach.... I had referred pain along my left abdomen due to it... I had no idea it was associated with the slipped disc, just thought I had something else wrong with me. that time required a lot of PT (essentially pilates style exercises) to get the extruded disc back in place (I don't know if it actually goes back, or just gets pinched and reabsorbed or what....)

I'm just trying to avoid any fusing of vertebrae, since that's the next step. That appears to be a terrible solution, since it reportedly puts more strain up/down the spine.

For pain relief, have you ever considered smoking a natural substance?

Perhaps some day.

A LOT!

and probably talk to someone with extensive experience...

Isn't cheno usually stoned out of his gourd during the vherfs?

I could probably ask him...

Back to work.

I don't have back problems, but do have neck problems. A couple of times a year I can't lift my head off the pillow without using a hand. In those timespans one wrong twist literally drops me to my knees. With the heart meds and blood thinner I can't take an anelgesic. So it's ice packs, chiropractic, and deep tissue massage. Now that's living large! Oddly I seldom get any numbness.

Yeah, sucks getting old. When you throw out your back or strain you neck from just sleeping... you've officially crossed that line. I know I've woken up some mornings sore for seemingly no go reason. Try to think what I did the day before that was out of the ordinary and come up blank.

Things creek and crack in my ankle that I broke back in college. I can still hear the Doc say to me "When you get older, it wouldn't surprise me if this causes you some problems. Just hope it's nothing other than early arthritis."

Took the kids to my parents pool while Jacquelyn finished work... back home and makin bacon... literally... center cut, Applewood smoked, chopped into small pieces, and simmering slowly...

It will join a chorus of cheeses - havarti, gouda, Swiss, aged cheddar - in the center of a little more than a pound of ground beef and there be married together in blissful matrimony atop a charcoal weber bbq...

Probably fry up some fries and smoke some more of whatever I just smoked cuz that made me feel pretty gooood....

Add me to the list.

Back surgery has been in the future since my early 20s. 11 inch growth spurt in 13 months created a nasty 30 degree curve in my lower back. Being out of alignment started a hip clicking 20 years ago which is now regular low lo moderate pain each day.

Looks like a hip will need replacement, which will disrupt how my back works, which will mean that back surgery. I know exactly nobody who's back surgery resulted in improved quality of life.

Hernia kicked in over the weekend. Either that or nut cancer.

Hey, at least I get to return to work tomorrow.

The herd needs a'thinin'.

Pretty sure there's no insurance package that covers "dumbass".

Meh... it had a good run.