Bad Back
When I was 17 I attended my friends birthday party. At this party was a trampoline, and being kids at heart, me and a bunch of my friends decided to jump on it, which is really unsafe, by the way. As I was coming down, three of my friends were bouncing up. The force of me going down and the force of the trampoline recoiling from their combined weight produced the following reaction on my back:
CRUNCH!!
The only other time I've had anything nearly that painful was when I had testicular torsion and needed emergency surgery. The trampoline literally compressed my spine, herniating two discs in my lower back. If any of you have herniated even one disc, you know it's painful as all hell, and I had two. I collapsed onto the trampoline and rolled off to the ground, completely incapable of standing. For the next few days, all I did was lay on my back, praying for the pain to subside, but it didn't. Eventually I saw a chiropractor who performed a procedure on me, wherein I was attached to the modern equivalent of the rack and my back was pulled apart, giving the relieving pressure on the discs and letting them heal more quickly, (this is similar to a procedure done on basketball player Tracy McGrady, except he has it done three times a week). Then they gave me a brace, some anti-inflammatory and pain medications, and sent me home to lie down for a week.
That was close to five years ago, and still feel the effects today. One of the ways I've dealt with it was to life weights, making the muscles in my back stronger to compensate for the weakness in my spine. After I partially tore my ankle tendon, though, I wasn't able to walk properly for quite some time, let alone lift weights. The muscles in my back atrophied, and now I'm feeling the pain of a bad back after 4 hours of playing tennis. And it is EXCRUCIATING! Christ almighty it feels like Germans are line dancing up and down my fucking spine! Holy shit this is painful.
When I was 17 I attended my friends birthday party. At this party was a trampoline, and being kids at heart, me and a bunch of my friends decided to jump on it, which is really unsafe, by the way. As I was coming down, three of my friends were bouncing up. The force of me going down and the force of the trampoline recoiling from their combined weight produced the following reaction on my back:
CRUNCH!!
The only other time I've had anything nearly that painful was when I had testicular torsion and needed emergency surgery. The trampoline literally compressed my spine, herniating two discs in my lower back. If any of you have herniated even one disc, you know it's painful as all hell, and I had two. I collapsed onto the trampoline and rolled off to the ground, completely incapable of standing. For the next few days, all I did was lay on my back, praying for the pain to subside, but it didn't. Eventually I saw a chiropractor who performed a procedure on me, wherein I was attached to the modern equivalent of the rack and my back was pulled apart, giving the relieving pressure on the discs and letting them heal more quickly, (this is similar to a procedure done on basketball player Tracy McGrady, except he has it done three times a week). Then they gave me a brace, some anti-inflammatory and pain medications, and sent me home to lie down for a week.
That was close to five years ago, and still feel the effects today. One of the ways I've dealt with it was to life weights, making the muscles in my back stronger to compensate for the weakness in my spine. After I partially tore my ankle tendon, though, I wasn't able to walk properly for quite some time, let alone lift weights. The muscles in my back atrophied, and now I'm feeling the pain of a bad back after 4 hours of playing tennis. And it is EXCRUCIATING! Christ almighty it feels like Germans are line dancing up and down my fucking spine! Holy shit this is painful.
p.s. happy birthday.
p.p.s. my "current crush" used to be the same.