Been there, done that, injury wise.
Same here. Many years back I first hurt my back carrying something around 80 lbs into the house. The second time I was working at the Indiana Geological Survey sanding tidalite sedimentary rocks with a belt sander, which pulls at you while you are leaning over and felt something "give". Next thing I knew I could barely walk. That laid me up for days. It seems like once you hurt your back, it's easier to pull it again. The doctor told me if I did stretching excersices, it would help prevent reinjury. It has helped but I've still pulled it a number of time since.
Rio Grande. The Action Road - Focus 1977-1983
Anyway, the back injury my wife had was at the sacroiliac joint. I had never heard of it before. She is improving.
I worked with a neurosurgeon who named his sailboat L 4-5. You don't need any extra joints to have problems.
They (all spine surgeons) used to laugh when they fused a joint in the lower back or neck, and say "he'll be back in a couple years" because the fused joint puts abnormal pressure on the other joints.
People with neck problems tend to have low back problems and visa versa.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
I work in construction. Not management, but "jolly worker".
I am 75.
I found that when I'm out of work, I get sciatica. I have considered yoga for those times.
But going back to work seems to clear it up.
Ed
My wife had one of the L4 or L5 removed many years ago, I forget which, and she has had sciatica on and off for years. She was rear ended in late 2019 and started seeing a chiropractor, mainly becaues physio doctors wouldn't be able to see her for at least a month after the accident. She found they have been majorly helpful. And hip pain she had had for over 20 years disappeared almost completely after the treatment. The accident affected her neck however and she may eventually need surgery. She still hasn't settled the medical part of the accident claim; it is awaiting one more CT or MRI, I forget which, to finally have her lawyer make the claim. He did file what ever was need before the 2 year deadline to give time for the additional evaluation.
7j43kI am 75. <SNIP> But going back to work seems to clear it up.
I have been retired for over a year now, but working on my own house full-time.
I can honestly say that "working construction" while retired has made me feel a lot better.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
I was thinking not so much of "working through the pain", but that the work lessens the chance of getting pain.
Sometimes I go up and down ladders most of the day (hanging and wiring recessed lights). Sometimes I have to be on the floor and up, over and over. And etc. And there's moving tool boxes. Lots of assorted exercises and movements.
The foreman on my job said that he and his crew were going to take today off, along with the weekend. I felt only slightly guilty when I joined them in their shirking. The owner was fine--he's liking us a lot. So, no problems with him. Of course, there's the lack of billable hours, but I am enjoying sitting on my butt a LOT.
And, of course, playing with trains.
Well ordered 4 mono juicers just to play around, the price was good, only paid about $2 more per juicer than on the hex so less invested at this time so will experiment.
Cool. I'm still working on the fence but snuck in some time a week ago to solder wires to all of the frogs in one part of staging - that way all I have to do is attach them to the Hex juicers and the juicers to the buss.
I still need to order some on/off switches for the staging tracks so I can connect them to the bus, and kill power to any of 15 staging tracks. Probably have a couple more weekends on the fence yet. It was in the 90's last weekend - *whew*
I put wires on all my frogs when I did my other wiring. I have no stageing tracks but do have tracks around my turntable that need the swiches, right now they are just wired to the main.
In my case, the turrnouts are almost all Peco electrofrog so they have a built in frog wire, so that helps make it easier. In my case I want to lay down the wood over the top of staging so needed to get some steps finished below while it's easy to get to it. I plan to twist and tin the other ends so they will be easy to insert into the frog juicer terminals.
My layout is all foam construction which is why I kept with the Caboose ground throws instead of going with Tortoise machines.
Well a slight problem with the first install, even though it worked fine before on a siding, it would not work on the juicer. Found out that a gap was missing which of course I then cut in the wrong place. So a cut and a soulder bridge fixed the juicer problem and of course I had to repair my miss cut. All is fine now. Always knew I didn't follow correct proticol on that siding with a switch in it but it worked till I put in the juicer. Learned with DCC, no short cuts.
Well just ordered the rest of the juicers and a few other things from Linchfield Station, great prices and $4 shipping. Last order came faster than advised.
Well I just installed my first hex frog juicer, no issues I can detect and it has made my runaround in that area work flawlessly now.
Awesome. I just ordered my 5th Hex Frog Juicer along with a PR4 for decoder programming from Litchfield Station. Four dollar shipping. Figure I'll need 2 or 3 more before done.
riogrande5761 Awesome. I just ordered my 5th Hex Frog Juicer along with a PR4 for decoder programming from Litchfield Station. Four dollar shipping. Figure I'll need 2 or 3 more before done.
I haven't mounted them yet. Probably a small plywood or wood panel. I just finished the fence so hoping to get some hobby time now weekly. Last week I get much of the upper deck leveled and screwed in place for the main yard. I found some 7/16" OSB that was under my nose and didn't see it which let me extend the yard to the helix area. Been resisting buying a sheet at Lowes for current highway robbery prices. I did get all the wires run and soldered to the frogs in the area covered by the upper yard while it was easy to get to. Now all I have to do is screw in the wires to the Hex and connect it to the bus. I also need to order some on/off kill switches for those staging track so I can connect them to the main buss too.
OSB is an odd choice for underlayment but if it works for you, great. I use beaded foam, not really that stable (uncrushable) till I fill in the spaces between the cork with plaster cloth, after that it is stronger than I originaly thought (a 350lb friend came over on my last layout and he had issues with movement and put he full weight on a section, I said nothing fiqureing I would fix the damage after he left, no damage at all). That is why I went that way this time.
I've used OSB on 3 previous layouts and it's been fine; it typically been pretty cheap - at least until the pandemice, but I bought enough to pretty much complete my layout before prices skyrocketed. I don't lay track on OSB, but sandwich Homasote to it or cork.