The evidence AGAINST intelligent design...

[seawasp]

Is RIGHT HERE!

Back in 2004 edit:2005 I badly injured my back. It slowly got better.

Then a few months ago I fell, and apparently broke my tailbone (coccyx).

It still hurts.

This causes me to sit forward to relieve the pressure.

This has been straining my back. Which has reawakened the 2004 injury.

When I sit back to relieve THAT strain, I'm putting pressure back on the broken tailbone.

Now I'm in pretty much constant pain when I sit up; only lying down relieves it.

I tried the Donut Pillow trick. While it does take the stress off my tailbone, it makes me sit in a way that (you guessed it) strains my back in just the wrong place.

THIS is what comes of having a vertical support that, really, is designed to be a horizontal suspension bridge and that evolution has clumsily stopgapped into a sorta-acceptable solution.

Comments

[brownkitty.livejournal.com]

Are the donut pillows slanted at all, and if so does putting the silly thing backwards have any noticeable affect?

[truesamantha.livejournal.com]

Arrgh!

{{{hugs}}}

[nuranar.livejournal.com]

No fun at all! :( (I won't comment on the ID issue. :D)

[seawasp]

There are times I suspect that it's just that God had a wierd sense of humor, at least before he LIVED a life as a human being.

[nuranar.livejournal.com]

He definitely has a sense of humor!

[wizwom.livejournal.com]

Or maybe this is what comes of never having correct posture in the first place. Or overloading a structure with twice its design mass.

[seawasp]

It's not MY fault that the guys on the OTHER end of the 450 pound truck axle mistimed and ended up dumping all the weight on ME....

[wizwom.livejournal.com]

That sounds more like an injury from loading way beyond design limits.

[cerebresque.livejournal.com]

I have long held the converse theory of unintelligent design.

[xpioti.livejournal.com]

You might try sitting on a nursing pillow; they're shaped like an oversized neck pillow, so it's pretty easy to use them like a seat cushion and not have the tender bits touching anything.

[seawasp]

The donut pillows are about the same; I don't think the nursing pillow would be much different...

[wiredgargoyle.livejournal.com]

Well, in long ago days you would have been recognized as injured and unable to contribute to the welfare of your species. The result being you would have been refused food and left to starve with the old and infirm. Unless you were exceptionally smart and told interesting stories that kept the young out from under the adults feet. You'd be given a magnificent hat and a young wife.

Come to think of it, nothing much has changed. Except instead of a hat they give you your own talkshow.

[seawasp]

Unless you were a really schmott guy, in which case you'd have arranged to kill and eat those refusing you food. Or you'd simply be the best at making those cool flint tools, so your not being able to chase the mammoth wouldn't be a big deal.

[noctyrnus.livejournal.com]

Hope you feel better soon , Ryk... I can only imagine the pain :(

[guy-jin.livejournal.com]

owowowowowow... ;_;

[ninjarat.livejournal.com]

Not especially intelligent if you ask me.
But that's the point, isn't it? :)