Update on Matt

Exactly one week ago, Matt hurt his back. He came home from work, went to the gym & when he got home said his lower back was tight, we decided to get a jump start on our Thanksgiving cleaning, he wanted to wipe down all our kitchen cabinets, well, as he bent down to wipe off the last one, he pulled a muscle in his back! Stubborn, stubborn man drove himself to the ER at 3:30 in the morning after arguing with me that he could not wait until a decent hour so we could find someone to looks after Garrett & I could drive him. Thankfully, the closest ER is literally at the entrance to our subdivision, so he didn't have to drive far and never had to accelerate much. The Dr told him it was bad muscle spasms and prescribed Motrin 800mg, they weren't working and Monday when he had to literally crawl into the bathroom, we called his Dr, they did x-rays and said yes, it is just a bad muscle spasm, but prescribed some muscle relaxers and pain meds to go with the Motrin. Each day he got a little better, but he decided to spend the week at home. Normally, i would think this is great, but with how much we had to do, it wasn't so great! I ended up doing the majority of the cleaning myself, which was what we were trying to avoid. By Wednesday he was doing well enough to help me cook and with the floors, so that was good. And of course, he is fine now, he is hunting with Chris and couldn't be happier! The Dr did say he might want to get an MRI to see if there's more disk damage to his back, but Matt decided to wait, since if they tell him he needs surgery he isn't going to do it right now anyways, so why pay a small fortune for the MRI. Since his other surgery he hasn't been able to work out and has been eating too much, so he thinks it's just the lack of exercise and weight gain. He's hoping Monday to get back to working out and see if that helps things any.