{"id":31776,"date":"2024-12-04T18:48:10","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T01:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/?p=31776"},"modified":"2024-12-04T20:32:20","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T03:32:20","slug":"dec-4-surviving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/2024\/12\/04\/dec-4-surviving\/","title":{"rendered":"Dec 4  My Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"b-qt qt_119456\"><strong>We don&#8217;t develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"bq_fq_a\"><strong>Barbara De Angelis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>i am having a multi day event with my lower back. this happened a few years ago. some kind of back spasm.<\/p>\n<p>When it happened before, I\u00a0 tried in severe pain to roll off my bed. I got stuck between my bed and desk. i spent an hour stuck there in extreme pain. i finally got out and crawled down the stairs to my van. i tried to stand. that took anther hour.<\/p>\n<p>I finally got the garage doors open,, the van started and was driving to he hospital. the local hospital was a waste of time so I drove to Spirit River hospital.\u00a0 Driving was doable sitting in the drivers seat didn&#8217;t cause pain. i knew getting out would.<\/p>\n<p>i had visions of me crawling on the pavement\u00a0 from the parking lot to the hospital doors. it took another half hour but i made it there.\u00a0 After xrays and a lot more time i was given a prescription for a muscle relaxant.<\/p>\n<p>four years later i am taking pills from that same bottle, hoping i can find relief. the first pill just putm to sleep.\u00a0 it is a few hours late i am on the second pill to see if that will help. i got down the stairs and made sure cats were fed and the fire started. it was an excruciating event, in extreme pain and some very slow walking it was done I am in bed and the pill swallowed, trying very hard not to move.<\/p>\n<p>Even crossing and uncrosing my legs was painfull. Any movement sent searing pain to my lower back. My only hope of surviving wss not to move at all.<\/p>\n<p>So I am sitting very still in bed binge watching Stargat SG1.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-responsive-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wSRS7c_UqaM?si=a_ifRILmHyIBWv-5\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"youtube-responsive-container\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6NXnxTNIWkc?si=he3vet0jbYxGhcXk\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We don&#8217;t develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. Barbara De Angelis i am having a multi day event with my lower back. this happened a few years ago. some kind of back spasm. When it happened before, I\u00a0 tried in severe pain to roll&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more navbutton\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/2024\/12\/04\/dec-4-surviving\/\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paBxOx-8gw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31776"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31806,"href":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31776\/revisions\/31806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}