This week was pretty much devoid of any sort of meaningful activity on my part. I maxed out on the DL on Sunday, and had lunch with my friend Ken Blackburn, but that was about it.
I did, however, let the cats run out of food. They subsisted for 2 days on milk and tuna, which is something they prefer. I'm trying to get the littlest one in fighting trim for this season's Katzenartige Zeppelin Luftwaffe regatta, but she's not cooperating with the uniform.
So my daughter, the lovely and intelligent Samara, was not impressed with me starving the cats, and, using the daughterly ways only an impending first grader possesses, convinced me to go to the pet store, and to load up Chewy the Boxer and Piper the Pom to go with us, since they are allowed in the pet store, and Samara takes incredible delight in running errands with them in tow.
Immediately upon arriving, Chewy is up and pulling, him being excited about being out and about. We go get cat food, look at dog toys, and then purchase the cat food. On the way out, another dog is coming in, and Chewy abruptly pulls me, yanking me hard enough to smash into a wall, with thirty pounds of catfood under my arm.
Yes, folks, that is the epitome of 'functional training'.
On the way home, a short drive of maybe 10 minutes, my lower back starts to ache.
3 hours later it hurts. The pain is not centered around the spine, but more across the back of the pelvis. I am fairly certain this is just a muscle pull, and maybe a bit of sacroilliac inflammation
Today it's a bit worse, and nothing, not 600 mg of naproxyn nor 1000 mg of ibuprofen, nor 20 mg of baclofen is taking any of the slack out.
I'm probably not going to the doctor, since he'll prescribe me an x-ray, naproxyn, and baclofen.
We'll see though. I am still functional, though I am in a bit of low grade pain all the time. I have lost some degrees of mobility, mosting with bending over and lifting my left knee upwards will get me to a painful spot.
Going to keep doing some foam rolling, and then maybe some jumpstretch traction stuff on it to see if it helps it open up.
reverse hypers, fat man
Posted by: Matt P | August 23, 2009 at 01:27 AM