Harrell - again.....

[Rastak]

Man, that sucks KY. Glad you haven't had to have any surgeries yet. It seems to me about half the time regular folk get back sugery it fucks them up for life.

[MJZiggy]

I hurt my back a lot over the years, always in the same area of the lower back. I played rugby for 15 seasons, after "retiring" from semi-pro football. I had a real wicked fall skiing out west and a couple dings in rugger where they had to lug me off the field.

I was up in Wisconsin in the middle of winter and helped my brother move some heavy furniture and appliances about 2 months after rugby was over. We lifted a real big couch and when we put that beast in the truck, I felt a "whump" in my lower back.

I cleverly then jumped in my car to drive back to KY. My back started killing me about an hour into the trip. The spasms took over South of Milwaukee. The pain was getting more intense as we puttered down 65.

In W Lafayette Indiana, I got out of the car in a gas station to use the john. My back gave out & I got knocked right to the ground, the pain was so intense. I also couldn't move my legs. I was carried to the bathroom, then carried back to the car. We pulled into a liquor store. I bought a fifth of bourbon, which I used for medicinal purposes. For about a month, I was knocking back bourbon at a scary rate. Pain pills, shots, nothing relieved the pain, but Kentucky bourbon. Fortunately, I live in Kentucky, so I had a great supply of the stuff.

That episode started a 25 year odyssey of back doctors, surgeons, physical therapy (I suspended Bourbon therapy after while to stay outta Betty Ford). I finally ran into a great PT facility and it's working. I may beat the knife yet.

If Harrell makes it, it'll be a miracle.

I did the lite version of what you're talking about. Lifted something wrong and then went to bed and woke up a couple hours later unable to put my shoes on to go to the ER. Spent a week sleeping on the floor and I've had it off and on ever since--and yeah, when it flares up, I feel it through the right hip and down to around my knee. I just hope he's not permanently injured (like 40 years from now).

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[GrnBay007]

I don't think they are talking about crafts here.

Don't you mean.....

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i slipped a disk in high school, and my back has never been the same

i'm sure it doesn't help the back to have all that fat in the front.he's done, what a waste

[GBRulz]

KY, that a helluva story. Hopefully the injury didn't happen on a Sunday or you wouldn't have been able to buy bourbon anywhere in your neck of the woods

While I am not a back pain sufferer, I did pinch my sciatic nerve about 7-8 years ago after taking a bad fall while skiing. Ras isn't kidding, the pain is worse than anything that I've ever felt before. I was literally crawling around on my hands and knees for like three days.

[KYPack]

KY, that a helluva story. Hopefully the injury didn't happen on a Sunday or you wouldn't have been able to buy bourbon anywhere in your neck of the woods

While I am not a back pain sufferer, I did pinch my sciatic nerve about 7-8 years ago after taking a bad fall while skiing. Ras isn't kidding, the pain is worse than anything that I've ever felt before. I was literally crawling around on my hands and knees for like three days.

Oh, yeah. Been there, done that one fer sure.

That one is a KY classic, I'm tellin' ya.

Didn't tell the funny part.

my buddy was gone, he went inside to get the famous "12 pack for the rest of the way home". (I'm from Wisconsin, remember). I went to take the 4th step or whatever, & WHAM, I'm flat on my back on the concrete. I can't move my legs and I'm stunned & shit. So I laid on the ground trying to get my bearings It's about 10 degrees out in a raging snowstorm.

When I get it more together, I start to get pissed. people are IGNORING me. I'm laying there & people are acting like nothing is wrong. what really set me off was the attendant making change for a guy right over the top of me! i start raisin hell! "Hey, (insert a lot of cursing wherever it fits) I'm down here, help my ass up"! the people made apologies and helped me into the john. Then my pal got me back to the car.

I was still pissed as we were heading south. My bud told me I was lucky the onlookers hadn't gone thru my pockets.

It's kinda funny now, but I had the red back then.