NPR Hops on the Lower Back Pain Train

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Not long ago at a party, a friend, who may have had a few drinks in him, told me that I "brag" about my herniate disc issues on this blog.

Brag? Hardly. There is no pride in having a slipped disc or dealing with the aftermath. A lot of people have lower back issues and if my yammering on about it gives someone some direction, then that makes me feel good. It's a maddening kind of pain and there really isn't one way to treat it, like, say, a rash or a cold.

Not to mention that I met my boyfriend because of my philosophizing about my back in this blog.

As I said, NPR did a piece about lower back pain, and a good one at that.