This one time, I had to go down to South Hedland to do my Tech units as part of my Apprenticeship with my dad, it was at Pundlmurra College, to get down to South Hedland from Kununurra, where I lived, I had to do some traveling on a plane for part of the way, and the rest of the way by Bus, one thing they don't tell you about traveling by Bus is that it is very hard to settle into a comfortable position, just to get comfortable, I had to scrunch myself up in a foetal-position and lie on my side, every few minutes I had to change position due to pins-and-needles in my legs, anyway, I get to the Student Residences at Pundlmurra College and eventually decided to get to bed, the following day I tried to get up but I felt the worst pain imaginable in the lower part of my back, and I had to put up with it because I was due to attend my first Tech unit that day, so there I was, in class, having to literally sit bolt-upright just so I could write in my exercise book without having to experience stabbing pain shooting up my spine whenever I lifted up my right hand (which happened to be my writing hand, and it is my dominant one), those of you who have experienced what a bad back is like will know only too well, not a fun experience at all I can tell you.
Bad-back days are the pits, I've had some bad-back days where it was an excruciating experience just to get up out of bed, just to even move from one part of my flat to another involved me sitting on the floor while slowly sliding myself forward, I still get sore backs, but strangely, it only happens when lying on my bed, soon as I get up and sit on my computer-desk chair, the pain seems to go away, I found that some ice in a freezer bag that's wrapped in a tea-towel seems to help a lot, I guess it serves me right for trying to lift heavy things, such as a 6-cylinder engine-block, too many times, even though I did use correct lifting techniques.
When you do your back in, it's not a nice thing to experience, and it can happen without warning, one time when it happened, I was just reaching over to pick something up, when I felt something hit me like an electric shock in my lower back, and then came the pain and muscle weakness, and I knew instantly what I had done, moving ever so slightly in any direction caused a shooting pain to go up my back.
Moral of the story, always keep your back straight, and bend your knees when lifting things, cause bad backs are no fun at all.
I've even had to do a recording session while putting up with a bad back too, funnily enough, it didn't impact on my ability to record my parts though, I was sitting on a stool with my guitar plugged into the recording console, it was painful, but I did it, how Rock 'n Roll is that?
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