D'oh! My Back
Oct. 25th, 2021 06:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerMy back gave out on me today. I was taking a leak around 10:30 and all of a sudden I almost fell over in the bathroom. A bolt of pain shot through my lower back and my right leg went weak. It felt like I'd been stabbed or shot.
I managed to finish my business without pissing myself and tried to see if I could walk it off. Walking was difficult and I needed to brace myself against the walls. I decided to lie down in bed. Even that (getting into bed) was painful, though it was better once I was laying flat— except when I tried to roll to shift positions.
After 5 minutes I tried to get up from bed. I couldn't. It was not only painful but my muscles froze when I tried. My body simply would not let me play through the pain. I phoned Hawk to come home and help me.
Hawk came home with take-out food for us to have for lunch. Again I tried getting out of bed, figuring I'd try to get to the dining room table, but again my body said, "Nope, not happening" when I tried to get out of bed. Instead I ate a picnic lunch while propped up on pillows.
With food in my stomach I popped a bunch of ibuprofen and a few acetaminophen to dull the pain. They only helped a little. They were enough, though, for me to managed to get out of bed an hour later to go my doctor's office. While getting out of bed was a minutes-long process of trial and (painful) error, one I was up standing and even walking weren't so bad. But sitting back down, such in the car to get to the clinic? D'oh!
Continued in D'oh! My Back, part 2.
I managed to finish my business without pissing myself and tried to see if I could walk it off. Walking was difficult and I needed to brace myself against the walls. I decided to lie down in bed. Even that (getting into bed) was painful, though it was better once I was laying flat— except when I tried to roll to shift positions.
After 5 minutes I tried to get up from bed. I couldn't. It was not only painful but my muscles froze when I tried. My body simply would not let me play through the pain. I phoned Hawk to come home and help me.
Hawk came home with take-out food for us to have for lunch. Again I tried getting out of bed, figuring I'd try to get to the dining room table, but again my body said, "Nope, not happening" when I tried to get out of bed. Instead I ate a picnic lunch while propped up on pillows.
With food in my stomach I popped a bunch of ibuprofen and a few acetaminophen to dull the pain. They only helped a little. They were enough, though, for me to managed to get out of bed an hour later to go my doctor's office. While getting out of bed was a minutes-long process of trial and (painful) error, one I was up standing and even walking weren't so bad. But sitting back down, such in the car to get to the clinic? D'oh!
Continued in D'oh! My Back, part 2.
