John's back pain (2023)
story · status: updates only (last 2024) · last event: update (2024-05-28)
In March 2023 Hank wished John better after his back trouble and read up on herniated discs, and John said injections had made him massively better. By May 2024 John was in physical therapy for chronic back pain.
About: back pain
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-03-24 | update | Hank is sorry to hear about John's back and hopes he feels better; he researched herniated discs in response. → refers to The Seduction of Despair | The Two Reasons Why Humans Have Such Bad Backs 00:00:00 |
| 2023-03-28 | update | Replying to a viewer hoping he feels better, John says he is massively better after injections, maybe not a permanent solution but a good one. | My Tuberculosis Reading List creator comment |
| 2024-05-28 | update | At physical therapy for his chronic back pain, John told his physical therapist he was 46, 'halfway home', his standard joke when asked his age. (playful) | A Midlife Crisis 00:00:00 |
What is said about it
4 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2023-03-24 · The Two Reasons Why Humans Have Such Bad Backs — Hank is sorry to hear about John's back, hopes he feels better, and did a lot of research on herniated discs, since that's kind of his thing. — 00:00:00
- 2023-03-24 · The Two Reasons Why Humans Have Such Bad Backs — Hank says the reason humans so often have bad backs may stretch all the way back to the advent of bipedalism. (hedged) — 00:00:00
- 2023-03-24 · The Two Reasons Why Humans Have Such Bad Backs — Hank says the first hypothesis is that apes' bodies evolved for their lifestyle; it looked good at first because people with hunter-gatherer lifestyles reported less back pain. — 00:01:45
- 2023-03-24 · The Two Reasons Why Humans Have Such Bad Backs — Hank says on closer study it was the reporting of back pain, not the pain, that was rare: people were just living through their pain. (hedged) — 00:01:56