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ed_rex

A Merry (Painful) Christmas

Dec 24, 2008 15:27

Woke up around 5:00 this morning, feeling a lot of pain. I lay there for a few minutes, staring into the darkness, loath to move but also noting that - since I was awake - my bladder was sending me signals, urging me upright ( Read more... )

meme, random gloats, pain

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strider7901 December 25 2008, 02:49:48 UTC

I'm totally taking your meme. It looks really neat!

And wow. My parents had that kind of pain...hence why I'm exercising for the rest of my life. It sounds horrifying.

Steal Away! ed_rex December 25 2008, 03:10:02 UTC

It wasn't mine in the first place, anyway.

As for the back, yes, it's pretty awful. This one - seems to be (he said, crossing his fingers and typing with his thumbs) a mild one. But I'm a little pissed that it's less than 11 years since the last time it happened.

Funny thing about pain is how quickly the memory becomes nothing but words. Which is probably a very good thing evolutionarily-speaking; otherwise, I don't think many women would have gone through birth more than once, no matter how mysogynistic a society they lived in.

Re: Steal Away! strider7901 December 27 2008, 18:21:45 UTC

Oh Jesus, you're right on that. Hell I don't even want to get pregnant if I'll know there is going to be more pain...well, one of the reasons. Alas, thank god we can't remember pain...in memory.

well, merry christmas, anyway mijopo December 25 2008, 12:04:30 UTC

Wow, sorry to hear about all the pain.

Re: well, merry christmas, anyway ed_rex December 25 2008, 12:59:56 UTC

Thanks, man. Fortunately, as I indicated above, my ability to remember pain is limited in the extreme. And I awoke with not much more than a little tenderness (and the knowledge that one wrong move will set it off again) this morning and so am optimistic it will clear up entirely over the next couple of days.

Stupid evolution, making the spine so fragile.

es_skwared December 25 2008, 17:09:40 UTC

Hope you're feeling better today!

paul_carlson December 27 2008, 01:10:47 UTC

Ow ow owww!

Been years since that's happened to me, after my arms (as it turned out) got a lot stronger than my back. Hang in there.

The doctor gave me a handy non-macho Back Exercise pamphlet, which really did help a lot.

Question ed_rex December 27 2008, 01:45:58 UTC

Does that back include reverse sit-ups? Those are among the exercises I've been avoiding of late.

In any case,it's getting better, and fairly quickly. So far I've only taken two Advils today and I'm not really sure I needed them.