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[robertk]

Power restored at 1:30 pm. I guess we'll have to see how long it stays up.

We were without power for a couple of weeks one winter due to ice storms (some were out over a month). At the time, we had an all electric house (including heat). Not really much fun.

 

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[LauraLou56]

Good morning everyone. I finished this walkway for my daughter. Her fence is next. Technically it's her neighbor's fence but they'll never replace it.View attachment 2197982View attachment 2197983

Great work!!

 

[LauraLou56]

Hey all, welp...it's happened. I've been gaining some weight recently from stress eating and decided to knock it off. Been walking and hiking; baby steps to get back into running. Was at my second home lately on the lake to combat the depression instead of spicy Cheetos and pulled my back out. Bent down to grab an interesting stone and BOOM. Could barely make it back to my sweet Loretta Lynn (my car). Since I have been stretching and walking slow but GOSH DARN DOES IT SUCK. Asking my friends here...anyone have experience with this and tricks to get back to normal? I have barn chores this week and have no idea how I'm going to muck stalls like this...thanks for any advice! Feel free to DM me with the magic fixes.

 

[LauraLou56]

Power restored at 1:30 pm. I guess we'll have to see how long it stays up.
Still 390K without power in the province.

Yikes!

 

[newnan man]

Good morning everyone. Long tough weekend helping my wife at a craft show she entered. A lot of work setting up and tearing down.

 

[newnan man]

Hey all, welp...it's happened. I've been gaining some weight recently from stress eating and decided to knock it off. Been walking and hiking; baby steps to get back into running. Was at my second home lately on the lake to combat the depression instead of spicy Cheetos and pulled my back out. Bent down to grab an interesting stone and BOOM. Could barely make it back to my sweet Loretta Lynn (my car). Since I have been stretching and walking slow but GOSH DARN DOES IT SUCK. Asking my friends here...anyone have experience with this and tricks to get back to normal? I have barn chores this week and have no idea how I'm going to muck stalls like this...thanks for any advice! Feel free to DM me with the magic fixes.

Hot 🔥 bath, massage, streching, ibuprofen. Irish whiskey. 🥃

 

[Gare]

Afternoon everyone

 

[robertk]

pulled my back out. Bent down to grab an interesting stone and BOOM. Could barely make it back to my sweet Loretta Lynn (my car). Since I have been stretching and walking slow but GOSH DARN DOES IT SUCK. Asking my friends here...anyone have experience with this and tricks to get back to normal?

I guess it depends on what's wrong. I've had more back pain than you can shake a stick at, but what works for me might not work at all for you, or might even make it worse. So take it with a grain of salt. But for me, things that help (in no particular order) are:

* Bar hangs (just grab a chin up bar or branch and just hang and let gravity pull things back into line. 30 seconds at a time, or a minute if you're a masochist).
* Back stretches (cat/cow seems especially helpful).
* Hip stretches, particularly piriformis stretches.
* Twists with a broomstick
* Walking. As strange as it sounds, adding a bit of weight via a vest or backpack actually seems to help more than just plain walking.

Hot 🔥 bath, massage, streching, ibuprofen. Irish whiskey. 🥃

Those too!

 

[Chilli]

Hey all, welp...it's happened. I've been gaining some weight recently from stress eating and decided to knock it off. Been walking and hiking; baby steps to get back into running. Was at my second home lately on the lake to combat the depression instead of spicy Cheetos and pulled my back out. Bent down to grab an interesting stone and BOOM. Could barely make it back to my sweet Loretta Lynn (my car). Since I have been stretching and walking slow but GOSH DARN DOES IT SUCK. Asking my friends here...anyone have experience with this and tricks to get back to normal? I have barn chores this week and have no idea how I'm going to muck stalls like this...thanks for any advice! Feel free to DM me with the magic fixes.

Hi. Depends on the cause. When mine giving issues was just 2 prolapsed discs I used an inversion table. I didn't hang full upside down just about halfway. Enough to take the pressure off and let things settle. I said "was" because now I have also early severe arthritis in it. (When you hear anyone say hard labour never hurt anyone send them to me)
Often or more often than not its the muscles around a damage or weak area going into spasm that causes the pain and getting them to relax is the key. A Diclofenac cream is good. Few brands around like Voltaren but its the diclofenac thats the thing you want regardless of branding. It works wonders the actual ingredient as well as the action of rubbing it into the painful area like a self massage. My other one that helps me is a shower as hot as I can handle and let the water hit the pain area.
Sitting with your knees even with or below your waistline is good, sitting with your knees above it is bad for a bad back. If your chair or couch is low stretch your legs out till they are not above the waistline.
Get well, a bad back can be debilitating and frustrating waiting for it to come good. 👍

 

[LauraLou56]

Hi. Depends on the cause. When mine giving issues was just 2 prolapsed discs I used an inversion table. I didn't hang full upside down just about halfway. Enough to take the pressure off and let things settle. I said "was" because now I have also early severe arthritis in it. (When you hear anyone say hard labour never hurt anyone send them to me)
Often or more often than not its the muscles around a damage or weak area going into spasm that causes the pain and getting them to relax is the key. A Diclofenac cream is good. Few brands around like Voltaren but its the diclofenac thats the thing you want regardless of branding. It works wonders the actual ingredient as well as the action of rubbing it into the painful area like a self massage. My other one that helps me is a shower as hot as I can handle and let the water hit the pain area.
Sitting with your knees even with or below your waistline is good, sitting with your knees above it is bad for a bad back. If your chair or couch is low stretch your legs out till they are not above the waistline.
Get well, a bad back can be debilitating and frustrating waiting for it to come good. 👍

Thank you!

 

[LauraLou56]

Hot 🔥 bath, massage, streching, ibuprofen. Irish whiskey. 🥃

That Irish whiskey sounds like a great idea, alas' my daughter has rugby practice and I
will settle for ibuprofen and stretching...for.now. Thank you!

 

[LauraLou56]

I guess it depends on what's wrong. I've had more back pain than you can shake a stick at, but what works for me might not work at all for you, or might even make it worse. So take it with a grain of salt. But for me, things that help (in no particular order) are:

* Bar hangs (just grab a chin up bar or branch and just hang and let gravity pull things back into line. 30 seconds at a time, or a minute if you're a masochist).
* Back stretches (cat/cow seems especially helpful).
* Hip stretches, particularly piriformis stretches.
* Twists with a broomstick
* Walking. As strange as it sounds, adding a bit of weight via a vest or backpack actually seems to help more than just plain walking.


Those too!

Thank you! Walking seems to help as long as I stay straight and twist slowly.

 

[Oregon Viking]

 

[Oregon Viking]

Hi. Depends on the cause. When mine giving issues was just 2 prolapsed discs I used an inversion table. I didn't hang full upside down just about halfway. Enough to take the pressure off and let things settle. I said "was" because now I have also early severe arthritis in it. (When you hear anyone say hard labour never hurt anyone send them to me)
Often or more often than not its the muscles around a damage or weak area going into spasm that causes the pain and getting them to relax is the key. A Diclofenac cream is good. Few brands around like Voltaren but its the diclofenac thats the thing you want regardless of branding. It works wonders the actual ingredient as well as the action of rubbing it into the painful area like a self massage. My other one that helps me is a shower as hot as I can handle and let the water hit the pain area.
Sitting with your knees even with or below your waistline is good, sitting with your knees above it is bad for a bad back. If your chair or couch is low stretch your legs out till they are not above the waistline.
Get well, a bad back can be debilitating and frustrating waiting for it to come good. 👍

Yep! Inversion table works to decompress discs. I have a decompression belt, pump it up and it pushes up from your hip.... if compressed or herniated discs are the problem.

 

[Chilli]

Yep! Inversion table works to decompress discs. I have a decompression belt, pump it up and it pushes up from your hip.... if compressed or herniated discs are the problem.

What switched me onto the table was this day my back was bad and id been waiting to see the dentist. I struggled to get in the car, struggled changing gears, struggled to get out. In the dentists he goes to do my tooth and says I need to tilt you back a bit more. When he did my back felt awesome and I felt something actually move. After my tooth was done I went to my car and got in with about 80% pain gone. So I thought I gotta replicate this and got a table.
The belt sounds good, I have never heard of those before.

 

[Chilli]

 

[pepperj]

First it was " A Dingo got me baby"
Now Eagles, kids aren't safe.🙂

 

[robertk]

First it was " A Dingo got me baby"
Now Eagles, kids aren't safe.🙂

People forget that “in the wild”, we may be the top of the food chain, but we are still part of it.

 

[newnan man]

I forgot about the inversion table. I was put on one during physical therapy and it was great! I bought one from Craigslist and it gives great relief. Temporary though.

 

[pepperj]

Collected 71 gallons of sap from 31 taps. Good day for the tree production.
Start another boil in the morning.

All the ice disappeared this afternoon.
They say Thursday we have it happen all over again.