The Back Story

Well my weekend was going to start with a big bang. Unfortunately it ended with a bang… That bang was me hitting the floor.

One of my friends (Matt) just got a new place and so I helped him move. My knee has been bugging me and since his new place is a walk-up three story apartment, I told Matt that I probably wouldn’t be able to carry stuff up the stairs. He was totally cool about that, and he ended up having around 6-7 other people there. I did do some lifting, but I was really careful not to lift with my back because I didn’t want to hurt myself.

The move went really well and we ended up doing most of it in not much time at all. I was feeling really good. I didn’t hurt anything so that was really great!

Sunday morning I was scheduled for playing on the worship team and things were pretty good, until after my shower. For some reason my back started to tighten up, and by the time I got to the church I was in severe pain.

Unfortunately I didn’t have any back relaxing medication but I did manage to pop a few Advil… My back still hurt big time and I was in obvious pain, but thank the Lord I made it through the worship time and the service was actually out a little early because we had a baptism…

I raced homeward and stopped off at the drug store. I may have gone a we bit over board, because I bought a bottle of 50 pills…. Isn’t it funny how when you are in pain you are like, give me the biggest bottle…

I got home and Michelle ended up using the massager on my back. I have such a wonderful wife! After about an hour my back loosened up and I was able to walk around without being in pain.

The worst part about this is that I had made plans on snowmobiling in the afternoon with my buddy Gord. I haven’t had a chance to go with him yet this year so I was really excited about going, but that is what happens I guess.

I did mention to Michelle that I could go out sledding cause my back felt better, and her response was, “If you go out I will never massage your back again old man!”

Needless to say we spent the afternoon hanging out in the living room and taking it easy.

By the way, I decided to never play Star Wars Trivial Pursuit with Chris J again, he schooled me on the ways of the force! “Powerful was He”