Flashbacks can be good and they can be bad. Sometimes they can be really bad. I had one of those “really bad” types a few days ago, and it was not pleasant at all.

About two and a half years ago, I found myself in the midst of the worst pain I have known in my almost thirty years of life. Through the intricate web of youthful activities I involved myself in as a teenager and during my early twenties, I managed to weave for myself a lower back condition that I have to deal with every day. There are things I know not to do. There are things I simply can’t do. There are things I decide to do anyway and pay dearly for over the course of the following weeks (i.e. – roller coasters at Cedar Point). And it all came to a head some thirty months ago.

After a simple day of cleaning at church, I knelt down  to straighten two speaker wires on stage and felt a sharp pinch in my low back. Having had some moderate back pain before, I figured I had just “over-done-it” and my back was letting me know.

Not the case this time.

No, not at all.  Read More→