My back hurts. I mean, my back pretty much always hurts if I am upright, but right now it hurts almost as much as when the accident first happened, 20 years ago. (I was run over by a friend in his pickup truck, and it did some permanent damage, but back to the present.) I was trying to do a puzzle (750 pieces) and it involved a lot of standing. Standing is the arch enemy of a never-healed-right fractured vertebra. I lied down flat on the floor for 10 minutes, so I could stand up again, but now I am sitting and hurting but not smoking! I used to think a sick stick distracted me from the pain, and maybe in a sick, ironic way it did, but you know what else is distracting? Everything! Music, art, reading, typing emails or blogs or messages to friends. Walking in nature when you can, watching nature videos when you can't. Don't smoke, that can be one thing you can control. Don't smoke.
