Sorry about your back pain, Phil.  Do you bend your knees when you lift or 
move things?

My husband used to build sets for shows, and once he hurt his back so badly 
that he spent a day on the family room floor because it hurt so bad.  I even 
had to bring him plastic containers to go to the bathroom in, because he 
couldn't get up.  He hasn't had anything that severe since then, but he 
still has to be really careful with his back, and often sleeps in a chair or 
the couch when he feels it starting to hurt from overuse.

Peggy
http://kernsac.livejournal.com/
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 5:33 PM
Subject: A Pain In The Back


> Wednesday evening, I pulled the 20 pound trash compactor box  out
> of the compactor in order to do some cleaning behind it.   Stuff
> is always falling behind the box it would seem.  I went to  lift the box
> back into place and felt a little tug in my lower  left back and hoped it
> didn't mean much.  A little later that  night,
> before going to bed, I pulled a one gallon bottle of  distilled
> water out from under the kitchen sink and felt a big  tugged in my
> lower back.  It was hurting enough that I slept on  the couch
> because I could get into a more comfortable position.  I  slept
> very well and awakened about 6:30 this morning but when I  got off
> the couch, I could hardly stand.  I went and tried putting  on my
> clothing for the day but suddenly I was having severe back  spasms
> and I could not even stand.  I literally had to lay on the  floor
> to slip my clothes on and the pain was getting worse.  By an  hour
> later, I could not stand or sit.  I literally had to crawl on my
> elbows and knees to the bathroom but I could not get to a standing
> position so I had to crawl back to the living room, no easy task,
> with my grandsons helping me along the way as they could.  I had
> to keep my head down and my bottom up because otherwise, trying to
> crawl on hands and knees, sent enormous waves of shocking spasms
> across my entire lower back and when that would happen, I would
> have to lay on the floor till I could gather enough strength to
> even continue crawling on my elbows.  My son came home from work
> and all my family and I talked about how to get me into the car.
> It wasn't going to be possible.  By 11 this morning, I was only
> able to lay on my right side, twisted into a pretzel, and any
> movement at all, sent my lower back into monstrous waves of
> unbelievable pain.  I have had various measures of pain over the
> years but this was the grand daddy of them all.  We called an
> ambulance because there just wasn't any other way and we decided
> that to try and get me into a car might make it worse or cause
> some other injury to occur.  I spent, with my family, several
> hours  in the emergency room today, Thursday, as they pumped
> various  drugs into me.  I finally was able to come home but
> brought a  walker with me because when I walk, I have to walk bent
> forward and the  walker allows me to do that without putting
> stress on my lower  back.  Your prayers would be appreciated.  I'll be
> living unfortunately, on pain killers for the next few days and after 
> seeing
> my family doctor next week, I likely will be getting physical therapy, 
> too.
> Financially, we have a larger co payment when getting physical therapy so
> that's of concern, too, but our insurance should cover everything I had 
> done
> today, and thank the Lord for that.  It was the hospital Sandy works for,
> too, to which I was taken by ambulance.
>
> Phil.