On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:49:09 -0500, BAR wrote:

Vic Smith wrote:
On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:59:02 -0500, BAR wrote:

Had a massive rupture of a disk, I'm lucky to be walking on my own.

You should tell the guys talking about lifting 200+ lbs of boat
trailer tongue how that feels.
How did it happen?

Original injury was sitting in a chiar in the living room when I was
feshly 18 years old. I reached across my body to pick up a beer that was
on a table while watching SNL. Pain went up my back and down my leg. Got
progressively worse over the years, 4 years active reserve in the Marine
Corps and then 7 years skydiving didn't help. Then finally in Nov of
2004, I can't tell you what I was doing the wife won't let me but, she
was involved. Ten minutes afterwards and I felt some new twinges. Then
Christmas day of 2004 my crotch went numb, called the doc the next day
and less than 5 hours later I was in surgery.

I never did go for that Kama Sutra stuff. Had a guy in my boiler room
get a hernia from just sweeping with a push broom. Weird.
He was discharged from the Navy because of that.
Hope it gets better for you, and doesn't slow you down too much.
But watch that trailer tongue!

--Vic