OW!

My back has fired up. My lower back, never the strongest part of my body, has lit up. It really…REALLY hurts. It’s not as bad as it has been….I can walk..carefully, I can get up from my chair if I don’t go too fast, certainly better than the last time I remember it flaring up, when someone had to drive me home from work and I could not stand straight, but I feel it’s only careful attention that is keeping me where I am. I had a moment walking to get lunch where I had to pause and stand in place for a few minutes (tried to climb up over a snowbank).

I am damn well still getting to the gym today, but it will be for something at a relaxed, gentle pace. I am going to blame the show indirectly for this one, both in preventing my getting to the gym, and a screwy schedule, possibly most poignantly, doing destruction on the set until 2 in the morning.

Bah. It will pass, it always does. The solution is the same one that has only ever been available, and that’s strengthening the torso and the muscles around the spine. This is an injury that I have had almost 20 years now (18 actually…if I remember right), it just hadn’t acted up in ages, that I thought I was on top of it.

Originally published at Mike Pictor.