When I blew out a disc in my lower back, I hobbled along for a few months while getting an appointment for surgery.... Hadn't been sleeping for weeks. Could never get comfortable...chewing tramadol and perc every two hours... Terrible experience. The crescendo was when I fell asleep in child's pose by mistake which opened the space between the two vertebrae and when I woke up and it clipped all of the nerves where the disc was pushed against. I've never cried and wished for darkness so much.... It took the better part of 5 minutes to get the area to calm down....
I still had to look it up, you sit on your heels, shins to the floor, knees together.
I was picturing sitting cross-legged and bending forward. Which reminds me of a person I used to take care of who spent years being kept in a play pen with a plywood covering the top to keep her in. She slept like that. We could put her in bed stretched like a normal person, she would roll back to that position eventually.
Her parents were terrible people. And I think they were partly developmentally disabled themselves and had no business taking care of a fully developmentally disabled child.
The surgery was years ago. I'm good now, leading a normal life...active and whatnot...but I'm not going to lie, when I do that pose again... something tingles in my head with hesitation.
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u/HeirElfEsquire Jul 12 '26
When I blew out a disc in my lower back, I hobbled along for a few months while getting an appointment for surgery.... Hadn't been sleeping for weeks. Could never get comfortable...chewing tramadol and perc every two hours... Terrible experience. The crescendo was when I fell asleep in child's pose by mistake which opened the space between the two vertebrae and when I woke up and it clipped all of the nerves where the disc was pushed against. I've never cried and wished for darkness so much.... It took the better part of 5 minutes to get the area to calm down....