you never had brutal back pain if you were still able to ride a bicycle.

people with brutal back pain can't even roll over in bed without crying tears of pain.


as for your "meh, ride through the pain" silliness, on sunday my back was feeling better than it had in days. i had an errand to run to a shop about a half mile away from home. i originally planned on just walking over there, but with my back feeling better, i decided that i would do a test ride to see how my back was truly feeling. for the half mile ride to the shop and the half mile ride home, the back pain was tolerable, but later that afternoon my back started SCREAMING at me and i spent the rest of the day laying on the couch and popping meds as often as i safely could.

riding to the shop was a bad idea.