8.21.2008:
OLLLLLLLLLLLLD
11:46 PMThere is nothing like a back pain to remind you that you're old.
I don't know what the hell happened. I felt fine at the gym yesterday, and I felt fine when I went to bed last night. Then for some reason, about 4:30 this morning, I woke up with a huge knot in my middle-lower back that would NOT relax. I tried using a doorframe, i sat in the massage chair, and i got my wife to work on it a bit... No dice.
My friend Lori saw how much pain I was in during our meeting this afternoon and offered me a reasonably-difficult-to-get appointment with our massage therapist (the one who fixed my back knot issue earlier this year). Laura, the therapist, worked on it - and it felt better, for sure, but it still hurt. She assured me that by releasing these trigger points that were all locked up, i would feel drastically better sooner than if i'd just let it go, and I trust her.
So tonight, I was just settling in to play a little Madden 09 with Jeremy, and my dogs needed to go out. I let them out, and one decided to play around a bit, so I walked out to coax her back into the house - and my back locked up. I had to get my wife to help me back into the house.
I feel so pathetic.
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3 Comments:
Wow, this struck a nerve with me...so to speak.
I'm 35, and this week I've had the worst back pain of my life. Missed 3 days of work, cause I was basically immobile, or on the drugs they gave me.
It was pretty bizarre to actually see the spasming. And, for extra fun, it tightened up the muscles around the front of my rib cage too, making it tough to breathe. Coughing is an agony.
Ouch, you have my sympathy, Joe. This getting older thing really does suck (I rolled my ankle on Sunday in a low spot in my parents' yard and it still is messed up today.) But there's only one real alternative to getting older and it sucks worse.
Should I buy stock in an ibuprofen factory?
Don't remind me about getting old, I'll be hitting the big 3-0 in november. But I'm pretty sure having 3 kids under age 5 has made me old before my time!
feel better joe!
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