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Article: Shooting pains and bad posture - all for the love of my cars
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- The Irish Times
- Article date:
- July 22, 2009
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EMISSIONS: I'M WARNING you now, as I lie crippled in the bed,
typing this with one finger, that I am in an even less jolly mood
than usual, writes KILIAN DOYLE
Indeed, in my present state, even cracking a smile sends jolts of
pain through my body that reduce me to tears. It's all I can do to
stop myself from projectile vomiting over the cat.
Fellow sufferers of my particular affliction - the bad back -
will understand. They'll be nodding in empathy when I say that,
despite being filled with enough drugs to fell Keith Richards, I
feel like my spinal cord has been replaced with a length of barbed
wire, dipped in sulphuric acid.
While this all sounds very dramatic, the way it happened ...