Not A Merry Xmas. Totaled Truck & Injuries

[Gaz64]

Chronic pain is awful to live with.
I have my whole lumbar area, L4-S4, especially L5-S1.
Can't do any of my previous type of work now, not even change a tire, and changing spark plugs or valvetrain adjustment is out.

I feel your pain Kevin.

Hope you get better soon.

Gary

[FUNFER2]

Hey Gary, sounds aweful. What happened ?

I can't even lift my billet aluminum flywheel on my new engine. Sometimes Just looking up sends me down on my knees.

[Ron61]

Kevin,

I am really sorry to hear that and I hope that you will soon be on the way back to normal. Here if they pull you over and you tell them you don't have your insurance card they will impound your vehicle until you take proof of insurance to them. We have so many dopers that get insurance for one month from some fly by night insurance to register their cars and then don't have any insurance after that month so they have made the laws stricter which is one time I agree with them. Now if they would just enforce the cell phone and texting law.

Ron

[Gaz64]

Originally Posted by FUNFER2

Hey Gary, sounds aweful. What happened ?

I can't even lift my billet aluminum flywheel on my new engine. Sometimes Just looking up sends me down on my knees.

Hi Kevin,

My back is from swinging spanners, engine blocks and heads, and anything else heavy related to cars for 35 years.
I had a fall down a set of slippery steel steps which didn't help. I have taken painkillers daily for about 4 years, 2 operations, about 20 needles now.
Sometimes I can't pick up the simple things, like a sock on the bedroom floor.

A few of us are all in the same boat, working too hard and getting older.

Gary

[Ron61]

Kevin and Gary,

I have had to put up with back pain for 20 years now as I slipped on a tile floor and it was just a very small slip but my back twisted and messed up some vertebrae. I went to several doctors back then and they all told me that surgery wouldn't stop it from getting worse as it got older and they all told me that they would advise against the surgery. Some days I can't hardly get up or down or bend to do anything and other days it isn't so bad. So I can relate to what you are going through and I hope that yours will get much better.

Ron