Skidmark wrote: ↑Tue Dec 05, 2017 2:19 pm
Daron - how is the back doing? I take it no surgery was required?
My MRI came back clean and no surgery required. Doc called me a fat kid in a way I had never been called before. He told me to hit the gym and said in my "Deconditioned state" my recovery might take longer then others.
I was like Damn Doc that's a new term to me. And well I have been a fat guy my whole life. Heck I am down 12lbs since getting hurt but I will never be a twig like yourself. He laughed and said to come back and see him in a year.
When I got hurt I immediately set a goal of being able to work on my car by Thanksgiving weekend. As I type this I am in the truck on day 1 of a 14day road trip. My car is stripped of everything accept the rear trailing arms and electrical thanks to a long Thanksgiving weekend. So mission accomplished there and goal met. Big upgrades in the works for the car and I will update when I have pics of all the new goodies.
Honestly I have started my day with an hour in the gym for about 8 weeks in a row. (6 days a week) started with physical therapy and has worked into the routine now. Hopefully this road trip does not kill that momentum. Lol it is crazy I started with 5 min on a tread mill and some specific stretching and balance exercise. Now I do about a mile or so at a pretty fast pace and 4 miles on a bike, along with 20 min of specific back targeted weight training. Most of this stuff is pretty light weight with a lot of reps.
My daily activity is still not where it was yet, and I actually hurt pretty good at the end of each day. Mostly feels like I ran a shovel for 10hrs straight. So that kinda is a bummer but in reality, I am 46 not 26.....and I am Deconditioned! Lol
So basically I am doing pretty good but I do think I may be living with back pain, maybe the rest of my life. We'll see?
Thanks for asking Skid!
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