MacFhearchair's off-season anti-slack

**Martin Roy** · 13th February 13, 11:12 AM

I noticed your post on Alan's FB and it sounds like you're really hurting. I hope the back issues resolve quickly and you're back on the field again in all appropriate haste. Take care of yourself. Good luck.

**Alan H** · 13th February 13, 12:00 PM

Yeah, this is pretty nasty. The latest update is that the Dr. is pretty sure she hasn't cracked a vertebrae or something horrible like that, but it could be a disk issue. It's "probably" a muscle problem, which of course still hurts like ^$#!@# but is fixable without surgery.

**MacFhearchair** · 17th February 13, 03:02 AM

It's improving slowly but surely. Physical Therapy is in the pipeline, and I'm possibly on track to go back to yoga next week, which I suspect will help speed recovery.

It's just a crappy situation - it was a small injury that got severely aggravated by a fall down some steps. This will set me back a bit, but that's the way the cookie crumbles as my mother always says.

**MacFhearchair** · 12th March 13, 01:07 PM

I've been back to the gym, and I'm working slowly from the ground up.

Squats feel f'n great. I did a 155# set yesterday, and I'm staying there for a while before trying more. I'm being reeeally careful with the deadlifts - I did 10@ 65# on Saturday and that was it. I might add a teensy bit more weight on Wednesday and do it again.

I'm glad to see that I'm mostly intact. I can still do the curls I was doing when I took the fall. I probably COULD do heavier squats but I am refusing it on the grounds of the injury and ... other factors. Deadlifts... well, again, I just need to be really careful about anything that messes with my low back.

Gonna go do some throwin' today. Oh yes.

**Alan H** · 25th March 13, 01:02 PM

Hope I see you at practice this week!

**MacFhearchair** · 26th March 13, 08:52 PM

Plan is to be there tomorrow if possible. My back's been cranking since I blew up another disc, so I need to take it easy.

... but I need to practice my turns on WFD - for some reason my brain has a hell of a time with that.

**Alan H** · 27th March 13, 11:21 AM

Bethany did some work with Schantae last night that really helped her. I wish she was going to be there tonight to do the same thing with you....might help. tonight will be shortish...5:30- 6:45 or maaaaybe 7:00. I have the last Ardenwood committee meeting.

But hay, you can take the sheafs over to the STanford stables and stuff the womens one with......

hay.

**MacFhearchair** · 8th April 13, 08:06 AM

Magically, miraculously, marvelously - I made it through a games following a night of fitful sleep due to serious back pain. Something corrected itself in the wee hours between 3am and 6am, though, because I woke up feeling mostly okay. I survived hammer, so I kept going. Survived WFD, kept going. Stones. Kept going. Caber - killed it! WOB? Not so great, but held on. Sheaf? Not great, but first in my class.

Ugh! I forgot to reg for ABQ. Here's crossing my fingers I can still get in.