Well, this was a winter storm I’ll remember for the rest of my life. "Only" 10 inches of snow, but... Sunday morning, blizzard warning, later changed to winter storm warning... The (soon to be replaced) snowblower didn’t start, so I grabbed the shovel. It wasn’t long til my back said “NO WAY - I’m not doin’ this”!
I managed to “fall back” to the car in the garage, and leaned on it to within feet of the door, but couldn’t take the two steps over, much less the two steps up into the house. I ended up on my knees, then my stomach, and slithered, military style across the threshold and took a “magic carpet” ride down the short hallway - thank goodness for wood floors. I was to be stuck there for 6 hours!
During this time, my devoted wife was running around the house - finding medicine, talking to a nurse, getting ice for my back, running outside to shovel snow, you name it. Needless to say, without her, I would have been in BIG trouble!
Later, our son came over - after getting stuck twice in his little car just before getting to our house. He managed to help me get up, on my feet, and, um, seated - before he took our (much heavier) van to work. I had tried several times to get up off the floor myself - no go.
So now it’s less than 30 hours from the first piercing pain, and I’m upstairs, at the computer, feeling much better. My son spent the night here, and this morning “pinch hit” for his mom, who went to work.
So if you ever have a similar problem; ice on the spinal area, and warm moist compresses on the muscles is the way to go! I wasn’t getting better with dry heat, which I tried before finding out from the nurse that ice was first, followed by moist heat.
