paulo

sharke
I once threw my back out taking clothes out of the dryer. Hobbled home and into bed and couldn't move for 12 hours, not even to roll over.

So that guy who pinched em all was just trying to help you really ?

Considering the shock of losing all my t-shirts laid me up for a fortnight, he did a pretty bad job. 

Damned back problems, eh? So common and yeah... all it takes is once and it'll nag you forever. I've got other contributing issues but I remember my first time as well (you always remember your first time). I was a young and mighty Beep, all of 20yo... maybe 21, raging away at the world, strong as a donkey and smart as a tire iron. I was boxjitsuing my way through a small warehouse of stuff that needed to be sorted and had to drag a small but deceptively heavy crate of junk out from a bottom shelf. I lunged at it, twisted to pull it out and "KAZZZORPPPP!!!"... lightning shot up my lower back. It was just a little tender for a few days but that was the first zap out of hundreds... perhaps thousands up until present day.
 
If I knew then what I knew now I most definitely would not be in the crummy position I am today... but yanno, young, stupid, invincible. You know the schtick.
 
Anyone needing tips on avoiding/alleviating back pain let me know. I'm a freaking master at this point.

I also have tennis elbow in one arm, golfer's elbow in the other, an intermittent ankle problem, neck problems, I can't sit in the sun because of a previous bout of melanoma, and I have tinnitus. Despite this, I still feel very lucky indeed when I see some others' plights.

 
Hmmmm..... sounds to me like someone needs throw away his medical dictionary..... ;)
 
 

Can you get "idiot finger" by having to show it to too many idiots?

I won't list all the messed up things that could, in theory, happen to me because of my "issues". In fact it's much healthier for me if I don't think about that stuff at all.