My poor spouse is having a truly ferocious sciatica flare up. He can barely walk 10 yards without severe pain. This is a guy who usually walks 8 miles a day. Chiro told him just to ice regularly, do a set of exercises and just don’t do shit that hurts, basically. He is miserable.

I am healthy as all get out and and just finished applying a beeswax finish to our two unfinished interior doors. They are the cheapest pine panel doors you can get but the finish looks purty.

My poor spouse is having a truly ferocious sciatica flare up. He can barely walk 10 yards without severe pain. This is a guy who usually walks 8 miles a day. Chiro told him just to ice regularly, do a set of exercises and just don’t do shit that hurts, basically. He is miserable.

I'm very simpatico. I had the same a few years ago, and it really caused a bit of an existential crisis, plus tremendous pain.

FWIW, Scrappy, the best stretch I found for my Sciatica was on YouTube. Most of the stretches are designed to be done lying done which doesn't help a lick when you're out walking about and it starts to hit.

But I found this one to be extremely helpful and I could do it standing up, so maybe pass it along to DH: [link]

It really does a fantastic job of opening up the piriformis.

Aw, poor spouse of Scrappy! That's rough.

But I found this one to be extremely helpful and I could do it standing up

I'm definitely trying this.

Sorry for your DH, Scrappy. That is a special pain.

Dog is full of sulk. What she doesn't know is that the reason I am getting dressed and leaving her alllllll alone is that I am going to pick up The Boy from the airport. Apparently five weeks away is too long for everyone involved.

I'm definitely trying this.

As you can see from the comments, a lot of people credit this stretch with helping them manage their sciatica when nothing else worked. That's certainly the case for me.

Ugh, I just got my wife mad because I used the room where she is doing a tele-session to exercise. She said it would be at 6:00 and I finished at 5:36, but the client ended up being able to do it earlier. If I was considerate of her time, I should have exercised after her session. However, I was trying to be considerate because by exercising before, I could make dinner during the session and it wouldn't be late. I have a way of doing the wrong thing even when I try to do the right thing. I don't know why I bothered to exercise anyhow since I don't especially want to live. Anyhow, I'm off to cook dinner now.

You don't do the wrong thing, Gud. You do too much of the right thing without being appreciated.

I made tuna melts in red and orange bell pepper boats, and they are so good!! And pretty!

Timelies all!

Tomorrow we head out on our trip to Toronto.(convention) We're driving, and breaking the trip up into three days there and two days back, with stops at things to amuse Mr. S. I'm a bit nervous about this, as you might imagine.

I'll be sending lots of calm~ma for all of you, Sheryl.

Gud, you'd be in the wrong no matter what you would have chosen. Since there was an unexpected availability, I think you were less in the wrong to have exercised early so to get dinner done, since you couldn't anticipate it.

If you'd exercised later, you would have been criticized for not getting dinner done on time.