things that make you go hmm.

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We are finally returning the garden waste wheelie bin we have been borrowing from the neighbours across the road (whilst their house was being built), so thought I should give it a hose down to clean it out.

Off to the corner of the garden to get the garden hose on it's reel. Oh - lots of leaves and webs - perhaps I should be cautious here?

After using some spider spray and killing the 4th redback spider, I though hmm.

Glad I was cautious.

I have a bad back

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Actually, I have a slipped disc, or more specifically:

L2/3: Within normal limits.

L3/4: Mild disc bulging

L4/5: Disc bulging with shallow left paracentral protrusion. Minimal impingment on the left anterior aspect of the thecal sac

L5/S1: Large central and left paracentral disc extrusion which impinges upon the thecal sac and the left S1 nerve root which is displaced postero-laterally at L5/S1. This would be consistent with a left S1 radiculopathy and is likely to be the culprit lesion. There is no evidence of sequestration or calcification.

but the tramadol is helping...

(the pic isn't my spine)