Bill McNeal wrote:Was chopping up some fire wood yesterday so we could have a fire pit last night and I hurt my back. I didn't feel anything at the time, but yesterday evening it started feeling stiff and a little sore, and now it hurts like hell from the left side of my lower back down to the back of my left knee. Holy shit this hurts, can't stand up straight or walk normally.

Does it feel like you're getting "stuck" when trying to straighten your back? Any positions make it feel better?

Took some Advil about 40 min ago. Still hurts.

@moodoo yes, exactly. When I try to straighten up it feels like it locks. If I'm sitting and not moving, it feels alright, but any type of movement is really uncomfortable

Aleve is the good stuff for back pain.

Same thing happened to me shoveling last year.

You're getting old. Go to the chiropractor. It will take a few days for you to straighten out and a few weeks to feel better.

Bill McNeal wrote:Took some Advil about 40 min ago. Still hurts.

@moodoo yes, exactly. When I try to straighten up it feels like it locks. If I'm sitting and not moving, it feels alright, but any type of movement is really uncomfortable

Does the fetal position make it feel better? Could be a disc. I'd avoid the chiro for the time being, at least until you've had some time to get the inflammation under control. Unless you've already got a chiro that you really know and trust, and can trust him/her not to blow through the inflammation to give you an adjustment.

When you're doing a repetitive flex/extend/twist motion, like chopping wood, you can push the disc out a bit and/or get a vertebral facet stuck in the "closed" position, clamping down on the nerve where it exits the spinal column.

As you're standing up, and straightening your back, go to the point where you get stuck, and then gently flex and extend at the waist repeatedly, until you get straight. It's a small arc of motion, don't bend forward like you're trying to touch your toes, just bend forward enough to feel "unstuck" and then back, trying to straighten a little more each time. If this motion - forward-back-forward-back - makes the pain in your leg go away or move into your back only - you've probably got a disc bulge. If not, I'd think it's a stuck facet.

If a stuck facet, lie on your bed on your right side (you did say it was the left side, right?). Bend your knees, so your pelvis/lumbar spine are in a neutral position, and gently rotate your left shoulder towards the bed. This could open that space that's locked up. A more aggressive move, that I'd avoid until you've gotten the inflammation under control, would be to hang your left leg off the side of the bed in a diagonal position. Not straight out away from your pelvis, but at like a 45 degree angle towards the bottom of the bed. This, combined with the upper spine rotating opens that space even more. If this move makes the pain move out of your leg, we've probably got a stuck facet, and this is something you can do from time to time to relieve the pressure on the nerve. This is also the position a chiropractor would most likely put you in for an adjustment of the lumbar spine.

Hope any of this helps - feel free to ask for clarification.

Got some heady topper. It's all it's cracked up to be.

mickbayne wrote:

philliesr98 wrote:

TenuredVulture wrote:

ReadingPhilly wrote:Dentist is a pretty sweet gig within the medical world. My buddy is pharmacist. That seems pretty great too. Didn't have the chemistry chops for that.

Pharmacists can make good money, but for many, in the end, it seems like you're basically working retail at Walgreens.

Me ma is one them. When places call her to fill-in for vacations and leaves and stuff the money gets real stupid. She has also managed to work at very few retail places over the year. And usually never ridiculous hours with lots of days off. 6 years of college she did back on the day at Philly college of pharmacy. And she is still printing money in a part time gig. As such she will be moving to FLA shortly and just returned from looking at houses for a trial run. All while being a saint. Good woman.

JUburton wrote:You can also go in-house at pharma companies and make bank.

Are there many of those types of jobs available, though? Feel like the vast majority of pharmacists end up at places like Walgreens or CVS working the 24-hour drive through window. And even those jobs aren't as readily available as they used to be. About 5 to 10 years ago a trend for the big chains and insurance companies was to divert maintenance drugs to mail order or central fill locations, where you could have a handful of pharmacists sitting at the end of an assembly line "checking" prescriptions filled by robots for an entire region, rather than staffing each individual location with enough pharmacists to handle the volume. In a short time it went from pharmacists being a very much in-demand profession to kids coming out of school not being able to find a job.

I haven't dealt with any of that stuff since about 2010 so admittedly things could have changed since then. I spent about 10 years working as a pharmacy tech and seriously considered pharmacy school. Really glad I ended up taking the easy way out and doing IT stuff instead

I think you can end up in 'general' pharmacy, but you need to earn your stripes in the retail sector. My dad talked me out of it 12 years ago and I'm glad he did so, it's a tough grind and why he retired two years earlier than he initially wanted to.

SK hasn't posed in almost a month.. he did visit a couple days ago. Hopefully he's just taking a break from boarding because I might literally die without him in the winter.

hmmm

political thread takes another victim

slugsrbad wrote:I might literally die without him in the winter.

Well he'd probably say you deserve it, so

so what's the "hall of fame club" situation like for concerts? My sis/niece/nephew/cousins etc. are sitting in 232. Found a single in 233 on stubhub, but 233 and 232 are on opposite sides of the 'corner', so I'm not sure if we could hobknob up in the box or not. Also found a pair on sale in 229 (for about the same price as the single in 233), but the same questions arise.

Oh, it doesn't appear as if 233 is HOF club? listed as "pavilion". I am so confused

Bucky wrote:so what's the "hall of fame club" situation like for concerts? My sis/niece/nephew/cousins etc. are sitting in 232. Found a single in 233 on stubhub, but 233 and 232 are on opposite sides of the 'corner', so I'm not sure if we could hobknob up in the box or not. Also found a pair on sale in 229 (for about the same price as the single in 233), but the same questions arise.

Oh, it doesn't appear as if 233 is HOF club? listed as "pavilion". I am so confused

In my experience any Hall of Fame Club ticket will get you onto that floor, at which point it's easy to go into whichever suite

Bucky wrote:so what's the "hall of fame club" situation like for concerts? My sis/niece/nephew/cousins etc. are sitting in 232. Found a single in 233 on stubhub, but 233 and 232 are on opposite sides of the 'corner', so I'm not sure if we could hobknob up in the box or not. Also found a pair on sale in 229 (for about the same price as the single in 233), but the same questions arise.

Oh, it doesn't appear as if 233 is HOF club? listed as "pavilion". I am so confused

233 isn't in the HOF club so you couldn't get in with that ticket, 212-232 is the HOF club. You could probably get 1 of them to bring you into the HOF club with someone else's ticket, but you wouldn't have a seat

I thought patience came with age? I find myself the older I'm getting the more I feel the need to get things done quicker as if I'm running out of time. Maybe its anxiety? Not sure how to break this mental thing I have going on. I've been trying to do better by taking steps back and just understand.

some good insults I've heard recently that are good:

(if someone is being physically rude) You couldn't knock a wank out, mate, let alone me!
(if someone has bad breath and you hate them) man your breath smells so bad I don't know if I should give you a mint or some toilet paper

Mexican Michael Phelps is the new Dos Equis Most Interesting Man In the World.

702 wrote:I thought patience came with age? I find myself the older I'm getting the more I feel the need to get things done quicker as if I'm running out of time. Maybe its anxiety? Not sure how to break this mental thing I have going on. I've been trying to do better by taking steps back and just understand.

tl;dr

freaking bored.....

...then you're boring