I just realized why I have such an abominable backache.

I picked up and carried a large old CRT computer monitor out of a house this morning- the bloody thing weighed a ton, and I had to pick it up from the floor.

Although there was a time I could have done that a couple hundred times in a row without stopping (seriously) that time is long gone, and I need some pain pills and a heat pad.

Dayum, that hurts. :cry:

I'm so sorry, sweetie...

Backaches are the pits...

Wish I could help...

Now go get your heating pad, and those pills, OK?

It'll be better tomorrow, I hope...:hug:

:o

:evilgrin:

lift with your legs not with your back. No, I'm empathizing with you. My back's been hurting for the last two years straight. Seriously, I had to take a bunch of lifting and transferring classes the first time I had back surgery and I can see a mile off when somebody is picking something up wrong. You might want to trade off with ice between hot packs. I know ice sounds cruel but it keeps the swelling down and actually numbs the pain. I mean all this in the best possible way. Sometimes I read over my stuff and think I sound like some know-it-all jerk. (I'm sure you know how to lift and it was just too heavy, my sense of humor is warped) I wish you the best and a speedy recovery.

A genetic shortcoming, I guess- never been a runner, never had any real strength in my legs, and it's even worse now that I'm middle aged, I have arthritis, and an artificial knee.

I DO know how to lift- as a 20 year landscaper I used to load and unload truckloads of shrubbery and trees by myself, with no lifting equipment. Those were the days I could do 500 sit-ups without stopping. Those days are fifteen years ago...

be as good as if not better than the pain pill.

I suffered and suffered with that stuff for years, then my doc aggressivly attacked it with muscle relaxants, and the acute spasms subsided. Now I get deep tissue massage every other week and it has really helped a bunch. And I have a truly ergonomic chair at work

you both need righteous butt-kickings

It always has been, since childhood. Ask her about the time when I was seven years old she almost put my eye out with a fork... :rofl:

when I was five my 6 year old brother put me on the handlebars of his bicycle and of course, acted the fool and crashed. I still have a small scar from the gash to my forehead. :o

that could give you a backache also.

That would be a miracle.

:rofl: