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TIFUpdate by accepting a $50 dare

I posted here the other day with my fuck up of taking a bet to backflip off a balcony, miserably failing and landing on my back on the backrest of a chair. I had been lazy as fuck since that day, but yesterday, I genuinely felt better and decided I would be fine to go into the city's center and interview people for a project all day.

Throughout the next couple of hours, the pain went from somewhat tolerable discomfort to agonizing deep pressure. I thought, whatever, I'll just sit down. But nope, no position or stretch or anything even slightly alleviated it. Getting into my car caused an overwhelming "pinching" sensation in my spine, and it was like my legs didn't work as well as they should. I could barely exert enough force to properly operate the pedals.

I had previously convinced myself that this situation would just go away on it's own if I stopped being a baby about it, but at this point I realized something was very much fucked. So, in the late afternoon I drove myself to the nearest ER. Getting out of the car was even worse, it felt like my entire back just... locked up, and every step sent a "shock" through my body. I straight up puked in the hallway from sheer exhaustion and pain the second I walked through the door. Luckily I was seen pretty shortly and given something for the pain so they could examine me.

Welp, turns out I literally walked around with a broken back for over a week. Compression fracture in 8T, for the smart people here. Got scolded a fair bit for not coming in sooner. Shifted two discs in the same area too, doctor told me I'm really fucking lucky I didn't severely jack up a nerve or anything. Said all the standing/walking I had been doing put crazy strain on my spine. The stiffness was caused by muscle spasms.

Figured I'd post an update. Like I said, I fr thought I would just heal on my own. Anyway, just got home from the hospital, they did so many different scans on me I might grow a third arm. My doctor said I have to take it really fucking easy until my next checkup and I'm already lowkey bored not being allowed to do shit lol. But feeling better on some meds so that's all good.

But yeah nah I probably could've saved myself some pain if I had just gone to the hospital immediately like my buddies - and a few dozen people on here... - advised me to. I also doubt I'll be setting any deadlift PRs anytime soon, which sucks because I was getting hella strong.

Live and learn, or something.

TL;DR: got dared to do a backflip off a balcony, jacked up my spine, and got treated way too late because I'm stubborn

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