Just got back from seeing the doc in the ED... he said exactly what I expected him to say, lumbo-sacral strain. Gave me an industrial-strength non-steriodal anti-inflammatory and told me to come back on Tuesday, when he will evaluate whether or not I can go to work on Wednesday.
I'm pretty confident that I will be mostly over this by then.
I am, of course, on restrictions... lift nothing over five pounds, no pushing, pulling, jumping or running. He didn't mention sex, though.
I was amazed that the doc didn't tell me that I'm fat and outa shape, the way every other doc has that's evaluated me for back strain. I think that he was just being polite, though. Either that or he read on my chart, "This guy is fat and outa shape, but sensitive about it and will cry if it's mentioned"
It does seem like I do this about every seven years or so. In fact, it's pretty amazing that I don't do it more frequently, given the number and size of the people that I have to move around.
Gonna take a little nap now...
21:00...
Interesting... when I was trying to go to sleep earlier, I found that if I rolled to my left, it was OK, but rolling to my right was very painful. However, I naturally roll to the right. So, to turn from my back onto my right side, I had to do a three-quarters roll... this is very hard to do when you're nine-tenths of the way asleep, but very important.
It wound up being a looooong nap. Like seven hours. And the back is better, just with one pill. This is going well. Except that I will probably be up all night. Or maybe not. I can always use more sleep, if I can get it. And being sick or wounded seems to make me need more sleep...