Caution: Danger Up Ahead
- February 8th, 2008 11:45 pm
I strained my back today.
Now, you are probably thinking I was doing some intense activity like kick boxing or walking around lifting cars off of people. Unfortunately, for both you and I, that is incorrect.
In fact this mild, yet traumatic, event occurred when I was shaving my legs in the shower.
That’s right. You read that correctly. Your eyes didn’t go awry. I had a shower-shaving induced back injury.
Leg shaving has now become a hazard of sorts. Maybe a sport should be made of it. I can just see it: Extreme Leg Shaving!
Am I going to have to start doing stretches before I get in the shower? Maybe do some lunges? A warm up jog around the house? A few jumping jacks?
This is the most ridiculous thing ever.
Please tell me I am not the only person to suffer an injury in such a funny way.
February 8th, 2008 @ 11:54 pm
This is hilarious - not so much that you are injured, but how it happened. Can’t say that has ever happened to me, but I hope your back is feeling better soon!
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February 9th, 2008 @ 12:14 am
I once twisted my neck so badly I was out of wack for weeks…you know how…
I SNEEZED!
Feel better?
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February 9th, 2008 @ 12:38 am
Funny this happened, the hubs is upstairs whacked out on muscle relaxers as I type…he pulled his shoveling snow.
Weirdest accident…my mom having a BM. Could you imagine explaining that to everyone you know. Well I was taking a crap and I messed up my back…
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February 9th, 2008 @ 12:38 am
Oh and feel better soon!!
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February 9th, 2008 @ 12:46 am
You. Are. Not. Alone.
i did it. and yeah i was shaving my legs. after sharing this with a friend i found that i want not alone either. apparently this is a pretty common bathroom mishap…go figure.
hey i tagged ya for a kinda of cool thing…never seen it before so i am intrigued!
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February 9th, 2008 @ 1:34 am
I threw out my neck recently from rolling out of bed! I am still suffering…. of course I’ve been going to bootcamp to exercise. Maybe extreme sports doesn’t help….. hmmmm go figure. Btw-I hope I wasn’t the cause for you to pull your 82 things about me page when I recommended the Shattered Dreams book. Get better!!!
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February 9th, 2008 @ 1:43 am
@Melissa: I can see how that could happen. Once in a while, when sitting my throne, I can feel my spine crack. But I’m more in danger of breaking the actual toilet than my back. Twice. I broke two different toilets by sitting on them wrong.
How tough a skill is this to learn? Should have taken notes in toilet sitting 101.
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February 9th, 2008 @ 8:03 am
You what? hehehe. I’ve done the neck strain from a sneeze thing before, like LunaNik. Not yet during a shave, though. Yet.
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February 9th, 2008 @ 8:19 am
Sorry about your injury, maybe you should just stop shaving? That may help keep you safe.
speaking of shaving…thought you’d like to know I actually shaved my hairy ass leg…and I put up pictures.
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February 9th, 2008 @ 8:34 am
A friend of mine messed up his back about 6 weeks ago.
“I was reaching for a box of crackers,” he said. Crackers that were on a shelf right in front of him, about knee height. “It used to TAKE something, but now, man. it’s just gonna go out, and there’s nothing I can do about it.”
So, at least you were doing something that required a minimal amount of contortion.
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February 9th, 2008 @ 9:15 am
I can honestly say I’ve never pulled a muscle shaving my legs in the shower.
In the bath? Now that’s a different story.
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February 9th, 2008 @ 10:52 am
i don’t think i’ve ever strained my back in the shower, but i did cut a huge chunk out of my leg while shaving (in the shower, i relate ..yaaay lol) and bled so much that my white towel turned ..red. tmi? sorry. it was bad though.
i did hurt my back/tailbone when i was young. i was with a friend at a park i’d never been to before, and i went down the slide that was SO steep ..i’m surprised other kids hadn’t died on it. so this led to a very hurt & uncomfortable situation for ..oh the rest of my life. i still have major back problems.
oh & when my back was feeling a weeeee bit better after the slide incident, i was jumping on my bed and decided to jump off onto my hardwood floor ..thus landing right on my tailbone again. :/ i’m smrt, yes.
February 9th, 2008 @ 11:01 am
Oh you poor thing! I hope you feel better soon.
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February 9th, 2008 @ 11:14 am
I’m laughing WITH you! hahaha
I am currently so kinked up that I can certainly empathize with you! Hope your back starts feeling better soon.
Try standing on one leg in the shower and do some shin stretches….
(Completely… NOT… SERIOUS here… **laughing**)
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February 9th, 2008 @ 11:46 am
Ooo…sneezing has gotten me too. Killed my lower back. Of course I sneeze several times in succession. I hope you feel better soon!!
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February 9th, 2008 @ 12:03 pm
Oh geez. I hope your back starts feeling better soon!
I once broke a toe by stepping on it with a stiletto heel. I apparently had been drinking a little too much. Oops. I ended up spending almost two weeks limping around and then as if that wasn’t bad enough, I lost my toenail!
February 9th, 2008 @ 12:24 pm
ok- good- “Melissa” or better yet “#3″ went there for me…. two days ago, I pinched a nerver in my neck wiping
Yes, WIPING. Like on the toilet. Don’t fret- I wasn’t doing any kind of Cirque De Solei, just regular ol’ WIPING 
WEIRD.
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February 9th, 2008 @ 12:35 pm
I should not be laughing @ your plight, but I am. I do hope you feel better soon though!
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February 9th, 2008 @ 3:16 pm
My sister injured her knee so badly she had to have surgery. What, prey tell, was she doing? She turned over in bed. That’s it.
February 9th, 2008 @ 4:32 pm
ok scratch the tag. i don’t see it on your page but just incase you have it tucked away in a draft…Do NOT do it!
i did it and got tons of …dun dun duuuuuuun
spammmmmm UGH!
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February 10th, 2008 @ 12:22 am
Holy crap. My latest post was about how I screwed up MY back too…. about something JUST as lame….
Maureen
Still blog hoppin’
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February 10th, 2008 @ 10:30 am
I always find I’m doing this little “dance” in the shower - one leg up to be shaved, the other constantly sliding behind me and then having to do this little hop to bring it back to standing again. I could totally see how you could hurt yourself that way!
February 10th, 2008 @ 4:19 pm
All the time. I hurt my back all the time. By doing everyday, run of the mill, mundane shit. It sucks!
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February 10th, 2008 @ 4:43 pm
if i can throw my back out by dancing to shake your bon bon (ricky martin) than…you my friend, can get a shaving induced back injury…
but…no, you’re not the only one…just the only one who’d admit such a thing
xoxo
hope your back feels better! getting drunk will loosen up the muscles…fo’sho!
happy birthday! (it’s your birthday, right? )
February 15th, 2008 @ 3:31 am
I broke a little toe once while soaking my feet. Not very relaxing.