bloggo ergo sum

Well, yesterday morning, after spending many, many hours over the weekend lifting building supplies and getting the floor frame of my detached study built, I woke up feeling great. There was no soreness or anything, and I felt well-rested. I went about my normal morning routine. As I was nearing time to leave for work, I bent over to pick up one of the shoes I was going to wear, and I suddenly started feeling a pain in my back. I didn’t immediately think much of it, but within a few minutes, I was almost completely immobilized. I had injured my back. It probably was a result of my working so hard over the weekend and not being careful to use my legs to lift instead of my back.

I’m sure paying the price now. I am in excruciating pain. The only time I’ve felt pain that I would say was worse than this was when I broke my arm into a “Z” shape. It is very painful to get from one place to another. It’s also very painful just to change positions, except for a few limited ones that are relatively painless, such as going from lying flat on my back to lying on my chest.

The physician’s assistant that I saw ordered at least 3 days of no work and prescribed a pain killer and a muscle relaxing drug. I’ve been on those and they seem to help a little. By the end of yesterday, I could even sit up, albeit leaning forward drastically.

This morning, I was in more pain than I was yesterday, partly because I hadn’t had any of my drugs for over 8 hours, but also because some latent soreness had set in. It was very painful just to drag myself (literally) to the toilet. I wasn’t even sure I’d be able to get off it.

Anyway, work on the study is, needless to say, halted for the time being, as is everything else. My wife is doing a really great job of taking care of me.

I’m going to see a physical therapist friend this afternoon, so I’m hoping that will prove an effective method for restoring some of my mobility (fyi, I will eventually recover all my mobility – it’s just that I have virtually zero mobility right now and wil probably be that way for a few days).