Bugger!
Thursday, August 5, 2010 at 8:57AM
I thought sciatica was something pregnant women got; it's not and it bloody hurts - I can only liken it to being given a swift kick up the arse by a grumpy coal miner in tackety boots every ten minutes, swiftly followed by a dead leg from a prop forward in a really bad mood. Not really whats recommended the week before salmon fishing.
Of course, the very worst thing you can do when afflicted by some catastrophic breakdown in the body's engineering is to Google the problem. You're never going to get a good answer. Sciatica throws up a whole list of discouraging words like nerves, discs, vertebrae, trauma and best of all, spinal tumour. I'm going to do the grow up and mature thing that men do best and stop googling and hope it goes away.
Bugger.....
Reader Comments (2)
I think you need to consider bit of gentle exercise - maybe cycling -... perhaps every morning from Waterloo to the City. There's an excellent bike route over Southwark bridge, much quieter than Blackfriars or London.... oops, just saw yr other post!
You fifth columnist you............. take some advice from a seasoned commuter - there is no nobility in arriving in reception at work with third degree tarmac burns and grazing to the calf's and upper thighs having bounced off pressed steel at 30 mph........ and that's a "good," injury.
The City is full of blokes who drink 5 litres of water a day, have squirrel nuts and organic muesli for breakfast, don't smoke and limit themselves to one and a half glasses of light red wine at the company smoker............... then they get on a bicycle and put all trust in their well being in motor cycle dispatch riders being considerate, cabbies not being selfish sods whilst listening to some ghastly self opinionated soccer pundit phone in on the radio at full volume and the streets being clear of still drunk or drug induced party goers returning home at the same time that they're peddling to work. It just doesn't make any rational sense on a risk adjusted basis.