Ouch!

A while back I hurt my back while working in the yard.  It wasn’t serious, just the run of the mill “back-going-out”.  This happens periodically and usually heals up in 2-4 weeks with the only serious pain occurring the first couple of days.  That was on the right side in my lower back and while I still had some pain from that “injury” it was mostly gone this past weekend.

On Friday while I was setting up the bed in the sunroom for the Feagins’s visit I started having pain in my left side lower back.  Unlike the earlier injury, where I heard and felt a “pop” in my spine when the pain began, this time a slight ache just showed up.  It has become progressively worse through the weekend.  Instead of easing up overnight, it doesn’t settle down.  It hasn’t responded to heat or cold and today I had to quit what I was attempting to do because it hurt to just stand.  It’s sort of like having a toothache – always hurting, sometimes worse than others.

I started to wonder whether something else is going on.  It feels like muscular pain and it is too low to be my kidney and it is not my hip.  So for now I’m assuming I have my muscles in that area tied in a knot and I won’t get relief until things relax some.  I have some pain meds to take and I will use that to sleep tonight.  If things aren’t improving overnight I will go see a doctor tomorrow.

We enjoyed having K&T and family visit this weekend.  We also had the 2nd and final marriage preparation session with a couple from Hurlburt on Sunday evening..  So the weekend was a full, busy but fun one.