I played Football, Basketball, and Baseball but as a Freshmen in High School, i was also our best high jumper in track. One day warming up with the bar set low, i was distracted by some Coaches talking about me during my approach. Too full of energy, i way cleared the bar, way cleared the pit bags on the other side, and landed with head and feet in the air solidly on my lower back to bare ground. That was the first injury.
Fast forward about 7 years, as a inside Linebacker for U of Arizona, during full go practice under a filming tower, i met and stopped a big Fullback head on at the line of scrimmage. The collision was a good one, the tackle remarked on, but i walked away from that hit with a tweek in my back. The next morning i couldn't walk, took about 10 days to recover. Second injury.
Fast forward about 14 years, Used to picking up heavy stuff all my life and thinking nothing of it, i tried to load a garbage can full if scrap metal that weighed several hundred pounds. I don't think it was the weight but the technique that got me. I was off work over a month with that one, number 3
By his time, my firewood business was well under way. No round was too heavy for me to load by myself and i seemed to never have any real pain but there were times when i knew i wasn't just right.
Fast forward to a couple years ago to present. My back never really stops hurting. I have really bad times that i can't sleep, when better can only walk 100 yards or so before my back gives out, and if standing, it can't be for very long. The Drs. say no surgery for me but are quick with the heavy duty pain meds. I know that i need to get in better shape as that would help but the diets seems like i'm constantly on, just don't help much and at my age and the way i feel, working out seems out of the question.
So, i don't ever take the pills, unless i really need to, and i live with the constant pain and reduced mobility. My body is just flat wearing out from hard use i guess, and remembering as i once was, it's not easy to accept.
Joey
"It's all about knowing what your firearms practical limitations are and combining that with your own personal limitations!"