If this follows the course my injury doing squats years ago did, It'll ease up by the weekend. The torn one will take a month or so.

Yikes!

@kdfrawg It was that damned shoulder strap not locking in place like it should have. Going to have to delve into that at some point and see what's wrong.

Our cat improved a great deal when I put her favorite bed in my office. She lays there and chirps at me.

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I can pick up my laptop bag. This means I have no excuse. I have to go into the office

That rated a smiley, BTW.

It has taken me 15 minutes to get out of bed the past two days. Only one back muscle is actually torn so it will be quite a while before I am 100 percent. Still a lot better than I thought it was going to turn out.

I can officially get out of a chair without wanting to scream. Am moving, once I am up, more like a person and less like a zombie. Muscle spasms will sometimes hit and make me grab onto something but. I can deal with it.

How I am going to exit my car at the office has not been thought out. The guys will probably laugh, point and cheer me on while I struggle because they know I am too messed up to hit them.

Once it reported that I had walked six miles in one day and I sat and actually calculated four, it was ignored.

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@kdfrawg Hope you had a good Christmas, sir. :)

Saturday: Car in front of me, doing 50, slams on brakes to complete stop to gawk at the neighbor's elaborate light display. Had I not completely redone my brake system, including antilock sensors, I'd have plowed into him/her. I tensed up so tight and stopped so quickly, I have severely pulled my back muscles. (Shoulder restraint did not kick in) Almost passed out from the pain and spasms removing my ability to breath. Got home in cold sweat.

Sunday: Pain bad but I can tell only one has a tear and it isn't severe. The bottle of whiskey my brother in law brought me from Virginia has come in useful :)

Monday: I will soon hobble across the street to watch nephew freak out opening his gifts.

Hope you guys are having a smoother holiday season :D