Ok. I think I hate snow now too. We do not get any here in the valley of the sun but a couple hours north of Phoenix it snows. The wife decides we need to take the kids up to play in the white stuff this past Sunday. I'm fine with this plan(at the time).
We load everything up Sunday morning and head up north. We stop for lunch in Payson AZ and all is fine. We finish eating and I take the dog for a stroll. I come back to the table (outdoors at Sonic) and when I go to sit down I have the most excruciating pain shoot into my lower back.
I try to be a good dad and agree it could just be a minor tweak and we proceed to head another half hour north to the snow. We get there and I realize ig was not a minor tweak. I sit in the car for 1.5 hours while everyone else goes and plays. I am in real pain, so much pain that I agree to let my wife drive home. I have only let her drive one other time anywhere in the 16 years we have been married.
She drives slow and choppy and breaks a little too suddenly. This is doing wonders for my back🙁 as we make the ride home of 3 hours. I could normally do it in 2.5. We are on twisty mountain roads that throw me this way and that. The pain in my back is getting worse and worse.
So 4.5 hours after I first felt the pain we get back home. I can barely stand up to get out of the car. Once I do I can't walk an inch. I have to drop down on my hands and knees and crawl into the house from my driveway. I screamed in pain the whole way and somehow crawled into the bed. I am now alternating between a heating pad and an ice pack and dealing with a pinched nerve. My wife managed to dig out my inversion table and I am able to use it as well. I am now walking unassisted but still mostly laid up in bed.
Did we really need to go play in the snow?