On Saturday morning I woke up with a bad back.<\/p>\n
That simple.<\/p>\n
I’d done nothing to antagonise my back; I have been doing no heavy\/awkward lifting, had not been doing any undue bending\/twisting.<\/p>\n
I just went to bed on Friday as normal, and woke up on Saturday with a bad back.<\/p>\n
I spent most of Saturday horizontal, just resting, not making movements that could antagonise my complaining lower back.<\/p>\n
On Sunday I went out on the Daytona, but I was double- and even treble-dosed up on a mix of ibuprofen and paracetamol to allow me to get out of bed and even get showered, shaved, and dressed.<\/p>\n
Once I was moving, things weren’t too difficult.<\/p>\n
If Saturday was an awkward day, and Sunday was a bad day, Monday was a very bad day.<\/p>\n
I struggled in to work, did a full day, and ate ibuprofen and paracetamol.<\/p>\n
The first thing I noticed when I woke up on Tuesday was that things had eased off, the pain and stiffness had gone away and I felt normal.<\/p>\n
Yay!<\/p>\n
All day long there was not even a twinge or a throb, let alone the breath-robbing pain that threatened to hurl me to the floor the previous three days.<\/p>\n
As soon as I woke up on Wednesday\u00a0I knew I was in trouble.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ll spare you the details, but even with the help of significant\u00a0doses of painkillers, and the imaginative utilisation of remodelled coat-hangers, it took me almost two hours to get dressed.<\/p>\n
Commuting to Westminster was a barrel of fun.\u00a0Not.<\/p>\n
So was the solutions design meeting.\u00a0Interesting, but not fun. Obv.<\/p>\n
And the trip back home almost had me in tears once or twice.<\/p>\n
I fixed myself a light tea, came straight to bed and tried to sleep through the pain. Which didn’t work, obv.<\/p>\n
At 4am this morning I knew I was beaten. I sent an email to colleagues saying I wouldn’t be in. At 8am I rang the Doc. At 8.15am I began the slow, careful ballet that allowed me to get dressed. At 10am I was walking carefully out of the surgery with a couple of prescriptions.<\/p>\n
Predictably, I have boxes of super-strength painkillers, instructions to avoid heavy lifting, and a cautionary warning that it could take 6-8 weeks for recovery.<\/p>\n
I’ve spent the rest of the day horizontal, dozing and\u00a0watching on-demand videos.<\/p>\n
A trip to the kitchen, a couple of minutes ago, revealed that the painkillers are doing their job nicely.<\/p>\n
I’ll be back at work tomorrow.<\/p>\n
When the Doc asked what I was doing when the pain really began to shout at me, and I said ‘brushing my teeth’, her response was ‘can you do it less\u00a0vigorously?’<\/p>\n
Well yes, I guess so. But I don’t think brushing my teeth put in so much agony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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