Sure thing. I’m just wired to go and do. Not liking this old age idea. But I was looking at my book. I have only had two pills today also. No wonder I am hurting , LOL…
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Billy,
I was going to complain about the nightshift at the mill I’m on, and the rotted out cow barn sill beam I’m going to replace tomorrow. I’ll take it back. To lay back and listen to Guns-N-Roses sounds awful 
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That was just a reference to “Patience” . LOL So maybe just some ABBA.
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Hi Billy,
From my own experience, i was kept in a Swiss pain clinic for 4 weeks on opium based medication.
Because i had an injured ischias nerve and SI joint from a fall, + the obvious disc related problems in the lower back.
The reason why pain hardly goes away is that you need to learn that your body needs time to heel.
Having pain is symptomatic but that pain can cause also more hurt. Hence, rest and painkillers for certain conditions.
If your ex-disc problem experiences pain at this point, your muscles will contract to support ( over support) causing more stress on the region, the problem gets in a vicious circle…
So, lay down, take the pain relief meds, give it time to heal… don’t rush it, take very small steps at the time…
Your body will be thankful for that many years to come…
On the other hand, if you don’t rest, the problem will reoccur faster then you would believe and worse…
Enjoy the reading and writing, between 2 sips of any tasteful alcoholic beverage, peace bro…
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Yeah guys, I guess I have decided the same. I need to rest longer than they said I would need to, and longer than I would have expected or wanted. So I’ll try to submit myself to reality. It’s a little disappointing that I’m not as closely related to superman as I thought.
That said, I might just bore ya’ll to death with “interesting trivia” with all this new reading I’m going to do…Here’s one I thought deserved a mention.:
Arctic Fox walks over 2,100 miles from Norway to Canada
An Arctic Fox fitted with a tracking collar has walked over 2,100 miles from Norway to Canada in four months’ time. The Norwegian Polar Institute reported that the young female fox left her birthplace in Norway’s Svalbard Archipelago on March 1, 2018, and reached Canada’s Ellesmere Island, where she settled down, on July 1, 2018. Though her journey covered a distance of 2,178 miles end-to-end, the fox was tracked walking a total distance of 2,743 miles, for an average of 21.7 miles per day. (CBC)
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That is one long trek over the polar ice in winter conditions and having to find food too.
Bob
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I heard that story on the radio a couple days ago. Sure is amazing, some of the things that go on in nature that we aren’t aware of. Polar bears sometimes go on big treks too. The loss of sea ice is going to be affecting all those creatures so badly.
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Bob, l agree 100% on pain. Its there for a reason. People get hit with pain, eat a couple of pills and go back to work, numbed with narcotics. Makes the simptom go away, not the cause and makes it worse! I am a stubborn bastard as JO once called me 
l only had a pain killer once as a kid (burned half my face with rocket fuel). Pain for me is a reminder l did something wrong, medicaly or in general.
Allso, l learned to swich off pain partialy in my brain, to a point.
A few times l had to perform minor operations on me thug, like a stich or so, and in tose cases l swear on Koens natural pain medication
I like to tell my wife pain and hunger are best teachers for children, its similar for grownups. (This doesent mean starving and beating them, just to be clear).
Ofcorse Billys situation is different. Cronical pain is something else an he allready fixed the cause opefully. You hold on my friend!
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Billy, it took me about six months to recover from my operation. After the first 3 months I was happy with the progress after the six months I could do my 20 push-ups. Try to lower the drugs as much as possible but not too much. I was amazed how well acetaminophen works but do not exceed 4000mg per day, after that there can be live damage. However, it doesn’t attack the stomach.
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K, I could not help but laugh at your post above. Just knowing you…It sounded like something one of my children would say.
Not sure why a kid burning his face with rocket fuel is funny, but with you saying it, it cracked me up. I was remembering when you were here and helping Jesse to make rocket fuel. He had been working on it for weeks. Once, while ya’ll were doing that, my mom called from Florida and asked about the children. I told her Jesse was in the shop with a crazy European fellow making rocket fuel. Being the city-girl grandma she is, my mother got very excited about the idea of her 9 year old grandson making rocket fuel…Makes me laugh still …But she has to be used to such things by now. My children do many things “normal” children don’t get to do. Hopefully they won’t burn their face off while they’re at it… 
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Well if your kids do burn themselves in the process definitely don’t tell the doctors in the USA that you left then in the shop with a crazy European you will become best friends with child peotective services if you do.
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Boy, does that bring me back to my early teens. Back then I was using a sugar and
potassium nitrate mix that was melted in a pan heated by boiling water in another pan.
When it got light brown it was poured into a rocket housing (pipe) and left to cool with a 1/4"
by 2" dowel to create a lighting hole. I had a 4 foot 2" copper pipe to launch. Aimed at the lake.
This is a winter shot. Worked great! Heated on an electric heater not an open flame!
I was nicknamed Tupper Lake’s mad bomber!
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Its been so cool meeting a kid like Jesse, like looking at my self 15 ears ago. Rolling pinkponk balls in alu foil for smoke bombs and making all sorts of crazy stuff. I wish l had more time to spend with him.
I told Jesse what l did wrong not to repeat my mistakes. That face burn was no joke. I used to do what Pepe described, then l read somewhere iron oxide acts like a catalyst to the fuel. Burns faster. But guess what… catalysts allso make reactions go off quicker…
For some reason l count being called “crazy” a compliment these days
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That’s how it was meant…
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I had a strange day. Concerning pain. We have a scheduled training video shoot tomorrow . Our translators are only available then. And we had to get the campus and gardens in order on short notice. I actually spent abotu 4 hours in the garden today working with jesse and a few otheer children planting our mid-summer garden. I found out I could not use a hoe to scratch out furrows. and I could not do any kind of chopping motion. But I was able to do some light digging and other light work like pushing a planter, and directing etc… even used a saddle hoe some without trouble. It was the first time I have really done anythng since the surgery. I sweated really hard like one should in July. It was really fun and even though I am very tired, I was really careful and I did not over do it. I actually feel a lot better. Stretching out a little, sweating, maybe feeling a touch useful…I wasn’t built for laying around. Now to just keep it light and take it easy and not over do it. …That said, I am sitting at home resting while the family is at the lake for the fireworks show.
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The pain usually follows 2 days later… i learned that the hard way… please be carefull Billy…
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Here’s a random bit of Canadiana, I was reminded by a radio show.
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I am being very careful. I spent today making training videos. On my feet all day which is good for the back pain. but my feet are tired. I actually still have very little pain, especially the leg pain that was so bad. Activity seems to help. But I will continue to be careful.
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Billy I have a medical condition which requires I use compressive socks and put lotion on my feet keeping the skin softer. I was having a lot of issues with sore feet a few years back even with new shoes then I decided to try different insoles and found that for me the ones below make a would of different. I now uses them in all my shoes even brand new ones.
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Hi All,
We joke here PNW wetside that actual summer starts the 5th of July. MichealG will understand this.
One of my best Mike Larosa memories was him phoning me complaining that his wife and one adult daughter had come out to western Oregon mountains for a week in June and tried to tent camp. Those Wiconsoners complained mightily of being wet, wet, and c-c-c-old. And could never actually see the mountains for the clouds. I told him that we plan ahead for outdoor get-togathers, class reunions, company picnics, and such way-ahead for the last two weeks of August to be safe.
I still wait for not having to build a morning warming fire to keep the furnace from cycling.
Our garden does grow, slowly. On the third re-planting of carrots. They just do not sprout. Strange, that. Usually they are reliable for us.
Our 4th-of-July treat for us was going out high mountain lake canoeing just under the clouds. A 1 1/2 mile by 3 mile non-motorized restricted lake. Glorious.
https://www.dnr.wa.gov/MerillLake
We saw otters; a beaver; an eagle being little birds harassed; and of course lots of fish jumping. The surprises were the mink, hunting fish. And the come out to graze small elk herd.
All just a 40 minute beautiful twisty mountains roads car ride from the house.
A person can always green house raised bed grow above the glacier rocks with screened out soil.
Regards
Steve Unruh
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