For those who don't know, I have had a bad back for a long time now, and in the past month it has really gotten painful. In addition to the back pain, my right foot recently started hurting so badly that I was limping for a while. Thinking that they might be related, I decided to go get checked out this week. The chiropractor I went to (Dr. Doug Gunderson in Ames...highly recommend him) says that my spine is leaning slightly to the right, and that he can re-align it.
Well, yesterday I had my first pain-free 3 hours in the past two weeks after a pretty effective visit to the chiropractor. I felt great, so of course I decided to go to the gym; I have been going and working through the back pain for weeks, so it should be even better now, right? Wrong, apparently. While I was doing my first round of lifting, there was a pop in my back, and then there was lots and lots of pain; the worst yet. I decided that going home and popping pills was probably more important than working out.
The moral of this story is, always ask your doctor if you should be working out after any kind of physical adjustment or surgery. I told the doc about the gym incident, and he informed me that lifting is a very bad idea for the next week or two. Lame. Fortunately, I'm not limping at all today, and the pain in my foot is slowly going away, so I may be able to substitute running for lifting pretty soon.
Senior Design is so close to done that we can taste it. I have a meeting today to discuss the final stretch of it. All of my code works really well apparently. Hooray!
Tonight I'm going to go with some people and try the Ames Buffalo Wild Wings out. Tomorrow night is Chris and Brett's birthday party. Wow, is that ever going to be a shitshow. We're going to see if we can get through the keg. We didn't last time, so I guess we'll have to step our game up a little.
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