Its a guitar injury! Oh yeah, I've hurt myself playing my guitar! I was blaming my muscles spasms from the bending over I did while working on the scooter on Sunday afternoon. But, before I worked on the scooter, I spent a couple or three hours practicing with my guitar out in the shop. I have a wood bench that I use for sitting while I practice. I've also been using a shooting bench rifle support as a foot stool to help me hold the guitar in place. It has seemed to be a good setup. But last night, after a full day's work without too much discomfort, I went out to the shop for more practice.
And, just as I always do, I slid the shooting bag into place and tried to raise my foot into place- YEOW! #$%^&*( That HURTS! Putting my foot on that bag sent sharp shooting pains all up and down my back and through the pain, the clarity of what had caused my problem became abundantly clear. Oh boy-o-boy, that really hurt!
I guess I better buy a strap to help me hold my guitar in place instead of propping my foot up like I've been doing since February. And I'll get out and buy a strap just as soon as I can stand to leave the house.
I'm home today under heavy medication. Last night my spasms increased in severity substantially and even though I took meds at bed time, I woke this morning in extreme discomfort. Today's pain and stiffness is worse than before I saw the Doc on Monday. Its so bad that it is all I can do to raise and lower the toilet seat and walking and turning while walking makes me really wobbly. I stayed in bed until after noon, only getting up to struggle with that toilet seat and now that I'm up I'm just sitting with a heating pad on the painful parts.
So, I'm pretty miserable today and not happy about it. I'm just hoping that I'm able to get back to work tomorrow.
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