So. Have been down and out with sore back last cou­ple days and after visit to chi­ro­prac­tor yes­ter­day, now feel like I can move again.

One minute I was sit­ting read­ing some­thing, stood up to leave for an out­ing and bam…thinking “wow…that was weird” and it was down­hill from there.

I have had occa­sional back issues. This one is on the side of my back along the spine, thank god, and not lower back, but yet is placed so, until yes­ter­day, it was spas­ming every few min­utes. I can take alot. A spasm that must feel like a cat­tle prod every cou­ple min­utes sucks.

What gets me every time I hurt my back is how much I use it. Right now, no mat­ter how much I might want to, I could not get on the floor to play with the grand­son nor pick grand­kids up and swing them around as I like to do. I can­not start paint­ing the stuff I want to get done before spring. I can­not do chores this week. It’s not that my hus­band isn’t capable…he is…but then he leaves to go to work and I am home feel­ing like I am con­tribut­ing noth­ing and he is doing everything.

For those rea­sons alone it makes me want to work harder to strengthen my back, although my chiro doc tells me where I injured myself is not the eas­i­est place to strengthen by reg­u­lar meth­ods. Of course not. But because I hate when I hurt my back more than any­thing, it is some­thing I will seri­ously explore this week­end and hope to start doing next week.

My son-in-laws dad has a seri­ous back prob­lem. Disc bone on bone. He does get cor­ti­sone shots, which I know help immensely, but I still say to him “How the hell do you do it? How do you get around, get stuff done, with­out col­laps­ing, throw­ing your hands up and say­ing NO MORE?” My lit­tle injury is noth­ing com­pared to his and yet I am wiped out. Afraid to move the wrong way. Pissed it is using up beau­ti­ful days I could be doing some­thing else. I really don’t know how he does it.

So that is my woe­ful tale. Just wanted to catch you up. Now, is that heat­ing pad still on???????