A Word Of Warning For My Fellow Cl'ers.

[2000Si]

Don't sneeze! lol

I was standing at work marking off some paperwork. I went to lean over and my allergies got the best of me. I let out this huge sneeze, stood back up straight and felt this sharp, killing pain go down my back.

I'm thinkin wtf? then I tried to breathe in deep and couldn't get more than a half breath. At this point I got a little scared, kinda felt like I blew something in my lungs or something.

So I had to write an incident report and left work early to go to redimed. Turns out I pulled a muscle in my back, on the left upper side between my shoulder blades.

As I was sittin in the waiting room I could feel a huge lump on my back, I actually knotted that muscle pretty badly.

Working 60-70 hours a week, I do lots of bending, lifting and walking and I've never hurt myself like this... until I sneezed! haha

So I got some muscle relaxers and 500mg aspirins, and I had today off so I could relax and let it unknot.

Never thought I'd sneeze and pull a muscle at 22 years old. Even minor things put life into perspective, especially when you still have tons of things you want to accomplish.

[Bryan_M]

that's pretty crazy. 60-70 hours a week!? damn, take a day off man. sounds like you need it.

[NstyGrnHatch]

dude that sucks! i work 60 hour weeks too, its not that bad when you spread it over 6 days

[2000Si]

Originally posted by Bryan_M@Mar 3 2005, 08:29 PM
that's pretty crazy. 60-70 hours a week!? damn, take a day off man. sounds like you need it.

yeah, it's spread through 7 days though.

7-8 hours mon-fri + 7.5 extra hours about 3 days through the week. That's about 14-15 hours on three days through the week, and oddly enough I am more awake on 4 hours of sleep than I am on eight.

14.5 hrs saturday, 4 hours on sunday.

It's a crazy stressful life, and I've done 80 hour weeks before at two different physically demanding jobs without problem.

I had today off by doctors orders, but I can't afford to take a break. the money from my 3rd shift job will put me well over the top of my bills. I can get shit paid off and get back into college for auto mechanics. That way I can work 40 hours a week and make twice as much money.

I hope to have my own mechanics shop within 5-7 years from now.

[imported_Kyle_G]

i sneezed and crashed my car once.

[94solchick]

I'll try not to sneeze anymore. Damn. I've never heard of anything like that happen before. Hope you feel better. What kind of muscle relaxer did they give you?

[Vtec_Power]

Originally posted by Kyle_G@Mar 4 2005, 05:27 AM
i sneezed and crashed my car once.

I sneezed right now and my internet la.......














....gged

[Calesta]

Ouch. At least you didn't slip a disk or something.

[94solchick]

been there, done that.

*warning*: don't walk out in front of cars.

[simplegreen]

sorry but this is the funniest thing i've read all day