12 December 2017
I have a bad back. I am hunched over the keyboard feeling sorry for myself. My emails are getting increasingly terse. When someone wrote to suggest he wanted to float his latest piece of spam to the top of my inbox, I nearly wrote back telling him what else tends to float to the top and to go spend more time with it. I checked myself in time, and instead sank the offending email to the bottom of the recycling bin. Quite how it can be recycled I am not sure, but I am guessing Microsoft will think of something. They have plenty of platforms for rubbish. I check out the NHS website to see what serious and potentially fatal illnesses my bad back might augur. But the NHS take a robust stance on back pain and essentially tell me to go away and stop being silly. Pretty much everyone suffers from back pain and pretty much nobody knows why. It is pretty much never caused by anything serious – unless you count the failure of the body’s central support structure as serious – and it pretty much always goes away if you leave it a few weeks. No you should not bother your GP about it and no you should not go to A&E. Unless of course the back pain is associated with other more worrying symptoms, such as for example being unable to breathe. Paracetamol it is then.
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