A month or so ago I moved a bunch of boxes and built some shelves and then moved all the boxes again. At the end of the day my back was killing me.
It used to be that I would do something like that and I'd be fine in a day or so. Now that I've passed the 40 yard line that stuff takes longer to heal. I ended up going to the doctor because it hurt so much and didn't go away. He hooked me up with some vicadin and soma which I took every night so I could sleep and eventually my back got better. It will still twinge though so I figure I better be careful for a while longer.
Today at work we ran out of 'real work' and they had us doing all kinds of busy work. I ended up, because I'm a guy (the majority of people at my job are female) and because I'm big, packing up these metal file folder thingies into boxes and stacking them for somebody else to haul off.
I started doing this and felt my back warning me. I decided I wasn't gonna spend the weekend in pain just for busy work. Instead I told them the story of my recent back problem. From that point on, whenever a box needed to be moved somebody would look at me and somebody else would say "He can't do it, he's got a Bad Back" and I'd see the other person mentally say "Oh, a lazy dude" because that's what Bad Back has come to be a code word for. So then I'd have to explain that I didn't have a Bad Back, just an injured one. I don't know why I bothered. I guess my ego. I'm really not a lazy dude. I don't mind moving boxes at all, usually. But it just wasn't happening today.
So anyway, I guess I'm just saying, next time somebody says they have a Bad Back, maybe they really do, so cut em some slack.
It used to be that I would do something like that and I'd be fine in a day or so. Now that I've passed the 40 yard line that stuff takes longer to heal. I ended up going to the doctor because it hurt so much and didn't go away. He hooked me up with some vicadin and soma which I took every night so I could sleep and eventually my back got better. It will still twinge though so I figure I better be careful for a while longer.
Today at work we ran out of 'real work' and they had us doing all kinds of busy work. I ended up, because I'm a guy (the majority of people at my job are female) and because I'm big, packing up these metal file folder thingies into boxes and stacking them for somebody else to haul off.
I started doing this and felt my back warning me. I decided I wasn't gonna spend the weekend in pain just for busy work. Instead I told them the story of my recent back problem. From that point on, whenever a box needed to be moved somebody would look at me and somebody else would say "He can't do it, he's got a Bad Back" and I'd see the other person mentally say "Oh, a lazy dude" because that's what Bad Back has come to be a code word for. So then I'd have to explain that I didn't have a Bad Back, just an injured one. I don't know why I bothered. I guess my ego. I'm really not a lazy dude. I don't mind moving boxes at all, usually. But it just wasn't happening today.
So anyway, I guess I'm just saying, next time somebody says they have a Bad Back, maybe they really do, so cut em some slack.