WG back injury.

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wildernessguru hurt his back at work yesterday. He was hauling huge five-gallon buckets of welding metal, and it turns out that's heavy. After he tweaked his back, he bent down to pick up a coiled rope next to a ship in dry dock, and his back spasmed. All he could do was hold on to the ship while he felt like collapsing.

Naturally, he continued to work for the rest of the day, until about 1pm, when he'd just about had it.

We started with alternating hot and cold last night, but the hot didn't help so we're sticking to icing it. He can walk around (in fact needs to) but getting up and down ... well, he has to lay on the bed and then eel his way up. He'll be taking a walk this afternoon and is seeing a massage therapist soon.

I am so far behind in replying to comments, it's not even funny. I've read them all, thank you all for your responses, I'll be back online later.