I am not sure how long ago it started but it feel like it has been weeks now. I think I first noticed it early last week when I was getting out of bed. That slow stretch before pealing back the blankets and swinging my legs to the edge of the bed to start another day. Lifting my legs I felt the slight soreness in my lower back and sat there for a minute waking up. That twinge of soreness built over the next week from picking up kids, pulling weeds, playing softball, and all the other every day activities that you don’t think about when all is well with your frame. Now it takes me much longer to get out of bed or straighten up from sitting. My back is sore all the time now and I need to stretch and warm up to even do the most basic tasks.
I have noticed that while my back is a constant concern for me lately the kids don’t seem to care about it all. They still want to get chased around for kisses, or get thrown in the air. Daddy still needs to get down on his hands and knees and play trucks and so I do it, albeit much slower. Since I can sustain the long drives down the hall and into the kitchen I try to redirect the play up to the table where I can stand or sit. I play games where I lay flat on the floor and the drive over me or, if I am lucky, walk on my back for some free toddler chiropractic adjustments. Finding creative ways to continue to play with a bad back are part of the job of being a parent.
Bad backs are easier for me to adjust for because the pain is acute and measurable but there are times when I distraction is not so easily defined. Usually toward the end of the day or the end of the week my patience or will wears out and I am just not the same. I don’t know how to adjust for these problems yet. Because these issues are not acute and measurable accounting for them with the kids is much harder. Physical pain is always easier to deal with and adjust for than emotional pain is. When my body wears out I slow down, when my patience wears out I yell more and I don’t like that adjustment at all.
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The longer you let it go untreated the harder it will be to fix. That is experience talking. I go immediately to my doctor or pay a lot more later. My doctor charges $55, and it is worth that and more!!
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I vote for visiting a chiropractor. But as the spouse of one, I’m a little biased.
I know what you mean about physical vs. emotional pain though. It’s so much easier to deal with a bad back as opposed to lost patience. I wonder if it gets easier the more we experience it?
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sometimes i get backaches due to long hours of working at computers.`.~
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