I'm only glad that my migraines are very mild: scintillating scotoma to warn me the pain is coming and a tylenol500 and Advil every 2 hours with a good hit of caffeine will tamp that down. Soon as the vision is back I'm almost back to work.

I was once running along a wharf and slipped while landing a jump. Stuck the landing briefly, but then my feet went up and I went down. I lay for a moment mentally checking feeling in the lower extremities and dreading the point when I had to move and run to catch my boat, but I did all that without much issue.

It's been generally ignored for 30 years, so it's hardened up nicely between the sacrum and ilium and generally abused the rest of the back with the gait differences. That's why when I super strained it one morning by merely bending forward, I was the only one in the exam room who was surprised it was gonna do that.

It's the only time I've had morphine (baby morphine 2mg) and it didn't really do much that was positive -- too weak to dull the pain and already hitting me with gut issues. Riding out recovery on the lesser Tylenol/Advil stack was a challenge but I couldn't take the gut side-effects from the opioids.

Waiting on a programme to strengthen that up has been fun since the hillbillies made the doctor's quit during COVID, but I'm in a stable state and obviously here to post snark and spelling corrections; so we're good!