Monday I went to a Christian book store to get a Bible for a friend. I got hylite markers and came home to start to hylite his new Bible. My friend is just starting his search for truth, and has no background in Christianity. I was just beginning to start hyliteing important passages when....AAAHHHHH!!!!!!!
A disk in my low back slipped out. I landed on the floor, with pain words cannot describe. STABBING PAIN that hurts worse than any broken bone I've ever had and I've had many.
It seemed to me that Satan may be trying to stop my plan of hyliteing this Bible so I grit my teeth and spent 6 hours working on the Bible. My friend came Tuesday to shoe our horses, (my friend is a blacksmith named Scott) and I dragged myself outside to the barn to give him his Bible and to talk to him. I can't stand up and have to brace myself with my hands on my knees bent over and take baby steps to move. Every few minutes I get a stabbing pain that drops my to my knees, or causes me to fall face first to the ground.
I can't sleep, I can hardly breathe when I move the wrong way, I'm absolutely miserable!
I've been doing landscape construction work for over 20 years. The same thing happened a few years ago. I went to the doctor in "98" and was told as he looked at my xrays I have the spine of a 75 year old. My vertabrate have chips and divits and places where the bone was turned to powder.
I used to "pride" myself on being able to out work younger guys 2 to 1. I could do in a day what it took 2 other guys to do. I was like a machine. I could swing a pick for 10 hours, lay brick all day, nobody could out work me. I made two different bosses millionaires using my talent and my back. I still have my talent but my back is junk.
I always thought that I'd be taken care of by my bosses seeing I'd give them every ounce of stength I had but when my back went out... "have a nice life."
I started my own landscape construction business last year and have been doing "brick work" walkways, patios, driveways... Its time to hire some young guys now.
Anyways I would sure appreiciate a prayer for my aching back! I used to be a "mind over matter" type that would grit his teeth and keep working but this pain is beyond that.
I roll off the couch, crash to the floor landing on my hands and knees... it takes a couple of minutes to catch my breath, with a pain beyond words stabbing me, then slowly I start to push myself up... after 5 minutes or so I'm up, bent over bracing myself and I start to take baby steps, I make it about 7 feet when the stabbing pain drops me back to my knees or face first on the floor. Fun, fun, fun, let me tell you. This is the first time I've been able to sit up long enough to type anything but I need all the help I can get, so please pray for me. I don't ask for prayers for myself but I can't take much more of this.
Please pray for my friend Scott also, pray he is lead to true saving faith in Jesus. Thank you!
The absolutely miserable Paul2
