Put your back into it...

So, I turned 25 last Wednesday, I expected my insurance to go down, I expected the "when are you going to have kids" questions to go up, I even expected to feel a little nostalgia since "I'm now a quarter of a century!!", but never did I expect to start experiencing the health problems of a 40 year-old. Yes kids, it's true, I threw my back out. How you might ask, lifting a 200lb safe? no, lifting a couple gallons of milk? no, lifting anything? no... I simply bent down and to the left while I was running, when I went to stand up straight, all I felt was sharp pain in my lower left back. I stopped for a minute and stretched it out, being the stubbourn 25 year-old I am, I kept running for another three miles, determined that the pain was only in my head, and creating the rule, "If you would continue walking even with this pain, then you should continue running, it's pretty much the same thing, right?, stop being a baby!!"

After I had finished running, I stretched for a while, but nothing seemed to work, by the time I got out of the shower and was getting ready for church I was getting goosebumps and tears in the corners of my eyes from the pain. The same stubbourn 25 year-old pressed on...I HAD to go to church, it as my friend Dan's last weekend before he went to the seminary, and I had to fill in for my parent's as EM's since they were at Grandma's.

All through church the pain was intense, and I'm pretty sure I wasn't hiding it very well. Sitting hurt, Standing hurt, going from sitting to standing hurt (and if you have ever been to a Catholic church, you know you do this a lot)!! By the end of church, all I wanted to do was go home and lay in the fetal position (or whatever position was semi-comfortable) in my bed!

So that's what I did, for close to 6 hours on Sunday, I laid in bed and read, and slept, and then repeated these actions! I was sure that I would not be able to sleep last night because of all the slept I got during the day, but that was not a problem either, apparently pain really takes it out of you. Today I am feeling much better, the pain is more nagging tightness then severe sharp pain, hopefully by tomorrow it will be completely gone...but that could just be the optimistic 25 year-old talking instead of the injured 40 year-old...