Immobility

I woke up this morning with an excruciating pain on my lower back. I was unable to bend over and walking in small strides troubles me even. The pain gradually builds up to its peak which immobilized me this morning. First thing in my mind was: " God, please don't take away my mobility from me, You know how I love walking, running and moving around ".  I prayed and rested, and mustered enough will power to come to work. Researching on my lower back pain now reveals that it can be caused by the ff: over-activity, herniated disc and disk degeneration. A break from too much physical workout, pain relievers and therapy can relieve the pain but it will always come back. 

I have no dependency on medicines, most of the time I endure and let any kind of sickness subside and die by virtue of immunity. I rarely get sick-physically but this one is incredibly persistent that I am contemplating on visiting a doctor for a consult and to get prescription medicine for the pain. But what drives me to fear this condition is the imminent danger of restricting my mobility. Everyone knows how much I love to move around freely. Aging as a cause for chronic back pain is acceptable, so is over-activity. I can deal and exercise a sound method to workaround on both limitations but If I am to be suffering from a disc injury, it will totally change the course of my life. 

I can't live my life in complete equilibrium if I am to lose or limit my freedom to walk and explore and just basically move. Like a wind, I just go places, anywhere, everywhere at any point in time. I sincerely pray to God that this is just a quick shove from Him to remind be to at least, walk on the right side, run like the wind on the right side, perhaps?     

Now, I must concentrate on getting well, surfing, touch football, boxing and running and graduate school and a career to grow, I have all these that will require me mobility.