Wellll I haven't been very good posting my exercise as usual. I think it gets boring or something. Anyway...

I'm going to try again. I had a flare-up (lower back) and am pretty stiff and sore today...with occasional shooting pains. It's been hard to sleep due to sciatic pain the last 2 nights. Anyway I got the idea today...Alleve seems to kick in after about an hour; I took 2 and set the timer for 60 minutes. When the timer went off I went for a walk. I had to walk verrry slowly and hit my peak discomfort at 11 minutes. (Felt the first shooting pain when I stepped off the stairs onto the sidewalk) Unfortunately I had forgotten my PT's advice to never walk more than 5 minutes from my home when in early recovery from a flareup, so I had an 11 minutes walk back home. It hurt pretty much and I laid on 'ice' for 20 minutes. Actually, it's this: