[cabmandone]

Originally Posted by drcoastline

Here Nick I'll make you feel a bit better.

A few years back around my fiftieth. I was doing my business in the bathroom. The TP was sitting on the vanity with a little tail of TP hanging. The cat started playing with the TP and knocked the roll off the vanity where it rolled behind the toilet. I reached back but couldn't reach it. It was just outta range. So I reached again and gave it a little extra effort.

I reached a little further got my head between the toilet and vanity, just a little further, my finger tip could touch the edge of the roll, just a little more. BOINK a shooting pain across my lower back. WTF was that? I couldn't move. I'm stuck arm reaching down behind the toilet my head jammbed between the toilet and vanity.

No one is home and I am stuck. Breathing sent a shooting pain across my lower back.

It took I'd say a half hour to get myself straightened out to face front. The tinest little movement was excrutianting. I couldn't stand up which didn't matter anyway because I didn't get the roll of TP. It was difficult to adjust because of the pain. So there I sat for I guess another hour with the dog sleeping on the floor in front of me and me doing my best imitation of Rodin's thinker. Now my a$$ and legs are going numb. Slowly I inched my way forward and eventually fell to the floor landing on the dog. He gave a growl and left. I lay there until my wife came home to help me to bed.

The fifteen or so feet from the bathroom to the bed was easily the most exruciating pain I have evr felt. I have shot myself with a nail gun more than once. Had to be pried off a 2x4 in one incident, no comparison. Ran a circular saw through my knee that required 33 stitches, not even close. Fallen out of trees, broken bones you name it.

Reaching for the TP while on the throne beats them all. I still feel the effects from time to time. You can bet one thing for sure, the TP is always secured before the process begins. I ain't doing that again.

Thanks! I needed that.