It's not so bad. Apart from a bit of gastro and the occasional acid reflux, it's pretty much deal able atm. And it's not painful, like the back, the hands, etc. Honestly of all that's wrong with me, It's the least annoying for now.
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Backs are difficult. I had mine well managed until the damn hospital stint, now have to work on regaining my posterior chain strength to support it. Had episode after hospital where I could not get up off the myotherapy table. I think myotherapist was more scared than I was!
aug 26, 2025, 10:26 am • 0 0 • view
Ow yours sounds way worse than mine Robyn! Glad you've got it under control now though.
aug 26, 2025, 10:40 am • 1 0 • view
Not quite back to where I like it, but nearly there. Need a couple more weeks of strength training.
aug 26, 2025, 10:47 am • 1 0 • view
Great news! I'm told mine's not fixable except via (more) surgery that could leave me paralysed below the waist if anything went awry. I'll take back pain over not being able to climb the stairs to my barn apartment any day.
aug 26, 2025, 10:59 am • 1 0 • view
I was offered radio frequency denervation in 2016. Decided against it, as not permanent. Did strengthing the muscles instead. Works for me provided I don't have time off, such as being stuck in darm hospital. The ankle fusions are difficult, 6 weeks on a knee scooter, but have exercises I can do.
aug 26, 2025, 11:10 am • 1 0 • view
Agree re back surgery, Davr. Still a bit risky. Not like knee and hip replacements which are mostly pretty darn successful these days. My knees are fantastic!
aug 26, 2025, 11:10 am • 1 0 • view
Mine's a degradation of the L4/L5/S1/S2 vertebrae "the classic Aussie bad back" caused by lifting things too heavy things the wrong way. I knew better, my Dad had the same issue, but "just this once" and "I'm in a hurry", I can't afford two trips", and here I am. I deserve my bad back, I earned it.😡
aug 26, 2025, 10:35 am • 1 0 • view
Btw, how many "just this once" were there? 1 per week? 52 per year? Naughty!
aug 26, 2025, 10:55 am • 1 0 • view
(quickly claims American citizenship [despite the current American government] so I can claim the 5th Amendment against self-incrimination).😂 I was RMIT union tech, and helped bands who were performing in story hall, which meant lifting roadcases up a flight of stairs. And yes, too many times.
aug 26, 2025, 11:07 am • 1 0 • view
I'll say nothing. 🤔 Btw, RMIT grad here too.
aug 26, 2025, 11:12 am • 1 0 • view
Never graduated Robyn (but well done you!), heard that the union tech job was available and looking for candidates and applied because it seemed like an interesting job. Got it, and let the course slide because I was doing it to get a job, and I'd found one so why bother? It was a simpler time.
aug 26, 2025, 11:24 am • 2 0 • view
I'm older than you, Dave!
aug 26, 2025, 11:50 am • 1 0 • view
I know that Robyn, but comparative to the present, (in retrospect which is always rose coloured) my times were simpler and better times. Your times (if you wish to make that distinction, which I never would) would therefore be even better and more understandable times than mine.
aug 26, 2025, 12:08 pm • 1 0 • view
The present is pretty damn rough, btw. I agree.
aug 26, 2025, 12:19 pm • 1 0 • view
I was a mature-age student, Dave. So probably actually studying later. P/t while working f/t (and raising 2 kids). Not really simple, I'm afraid. Graduated in 1992, so I was nearly 40 (I just realised that!).
aug 26, 2025, 12:16 pm • 1 0 • view
Congratulations Robyn. And yes, not so simple, unless viewed by the nostalgia of others that didn't have to deal with that. Alas I would have left RMIT's buildings long before you graced their corridors, so the trope where we both had a brief interaction but never met again till here is not valid.
aug 26, 2025, 12:57 pm • 1 0 • view
Virtually the same. L3 to S1. But think mine result of car accident 44 years ago. Just for the record, I was psrked! Two cars had a collision at an intersection behind me. One car crashed into my driver's door. My head ended up under the glove box on passenger side. TAC said "soft tissue injury
aug 26, 2025, 10:45 am • 1 0 • view
only, you'll be fine". Thank goidness hit front door, not rear door. Baby daughter was in car seat on that side. Corked thigh from gear stick wasn't great either.
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