{"id":5710,"date":"2020-06-05T10:15:05","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T16:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/?p=5710"},"modified":"2020-06-05T10:19:10","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T16:19:10","slug":"something-was-not-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/2020\/06\/05\/something-was-not-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Something Was Not Right"},"content":{"rendered":"

I can tell you this now, as I think back on what happened from the vantage point of someone who has recovered…<\/em><\/p>\n

1. Going Jogging<\/h3>\n

It seemed like a good idea at the time: go for a short jog on Monday\/Wednesday\/Friday while we were all locked down at home. A lame substitute perhaps for the 5K races that Trudy and I had been running in better times a few weeks earlier, but it seemed to be a good plan from both a physical and mental health point of view. <\/p>\n

That first Monday was fine. It was just a slow jog, after all, so how could it not be fine? And Wednesday was fine, too. It was a brisk, sunny day — warm enough that I wore shorts, cool enough that I wore light running gloves. It felt good to be moving, although my lower back was stiff as I stretched afterwards. Still, mild lower back soreness has been with me for a long time, and I hadn’t stretched for a while, so whatever.<\/p>\n

But the soreness got worse during the day and even worse into the next. <\/p>\n

“Do you want an ice pack?” Trudy asked on Thursday night as we lay in bed. <\/p>\n

I groaned a meek “yes” and then a relieved “aaah” when she returned and slipped a frozen pack behind my lower back.<\/p>\n

2. Getting Out of Bed<\/h3>\n

Friday should have been my third jogging morning. I was looking forward to it.<\/p>\n

“How’s your back?” the Fair and Industrious Trudy asked.<\/p>\n

“Kinda worse,” I said, not really thinking anything of it.<\/p>\n

I rolled over and started to get out of bed. Instantly a severe, cramp began in my lower back, spread into my glutes, wrapped around to my hip flexors, and shot down my quads and shins.<\/p>\n

“Oh!” I instantly yelled. “Oh, oh!” <\/p>\n

I yanked my legs back onto the bed, rolled onto my back, and lay flat, panting, and motionless.<\/p>\n

Something was definitely not right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I can tell you this now, as I think back on what happened from the vantage point of someone who has recovered… 1. Going Jogging It seemed like a good idea at the time: go for a short jog on Monday\/Wednesday\/Friday while we were all locked down at home. A lame substitute perhaps for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5710"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5710"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5712,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5710\/revisions\/5712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}