My back just went 'ping'

[Auntie Helen]

Was putting milk in the fridge, bending down to pick the 4 pint carton off the floor and swivelling to raise it up to a high shelf in our fridge. Ping.

Am now hobbling about. No cycling for me today. Ouch!

(I think it's a pulled muscle rather than anything skeletal, but I am walking around regally like a lady with a box of eggs on her head).

 

[ttcycle]

ouch - sorry to hear that- hope you are ok- sometimes the back just goes with something small like this.

Take it easy Helen

 

[Auntie Helen]

I've spent the last few days reading various trashy romances so I suppose I'll have to pick another one and retire to my fainting couch!

 

[ianrauk]

Blimey... hope you are ok Helles..

 

[Kirstie]

Owies! I hate it when that happens.

A hot water bottle and ibuprofen works wonders.

Obviously lean on the hot water bottle and take the ibuprofen.

 

[ttcycle]

I've spent the last few days reading various trashy romances so I suppose I'll have to pick another one and retire to my fainting couch!

hahah I don't know if this will sort either your brain or your back out...but if you must!!!

 

[ttcycle]

PS - Try and keep a bit of mobility in your back when you've had painkillers as lying down is the worst thing for back pain

 

[Auntie Helen]

I won't take painkillers because (a) I'm allergic to ibuprofen, they give me kidney failure and ( I am now paranoid about taking any painkillers in case they give me kidney failure.

I shall get into bed with the electric underblanket and a trashy book, once I have selected one from my vast shelvesfull (I am a book reviewer...)

 

[ttcycle]

in that case take a hot water bottle with you and get up every now and then to walk about - maybe get hold of something like deep heat. Hope it gets better soon

 

[Auntie Helen]

Yes, I think getting up and walking around is a good thing. I shall trundle off now to bed (having sat on my 'back chair' at the computer) but I may have to divert to the kettle for a restorative tea before elegantly walking upstairs.

I think I shall read a Georgette Heyer novel, considerably more upmarket than the recent stuff I've been reading. Hmmm, perhaps 'The Nonesuch', or perhaps 'The Reluctant Widow'.

 

[Aperitif]

Was putting milk in the fridge, bending down to pick the 4 pint carton off the floor and swivelling to raise it up to a high shelf in our fridge. Ping.

Am now hobbling about. No cycling for me today. Ouch!

(I think it's a pulled muscle rather than anything skeletal, but I am walking around regally like a lady with a box of eggs on her head).

No change there then!

Get well soon Helen - we love you! (Not as much as Uncle James who is, as IO write, is pondering a 5* luxury break, without bikes , to the tropics... )

Hi James!

 

[Auntie Helen]

Uncle James is pondering nothing of the sort, he's out on a walk with Lucy Locket in the snow trying to get her to play snowballs (she refuses, just looks hang-dog when a wet snowball lands on her nose).

 

[Aperitif]

Ha ha! My son's Girlfriend is oft called Lucy Locket - if she got a snowball that would mean they are off skiiing somewhere...sort your man out Helen - you deserve a break after a hard year's cycling!

 

[Auntie Helen]

I'm having a break, I've only done 100 miles this year and not a single one of 'em on my own bike!

I imagine your son's girlfriend (why the capital G?) isn't also called "bad girl", "poodles", "naughty doggie", "oy!", "no!" and the various other forms of nomenclature from which Lucy suffers.

 

[ianrauk]

No where near good enough...

I'm having a break, I've only done 100 miles this year and not a single one of 'em on my own bike!