Exercises in Futility

The pain is back. I guess I shouldn't have turned down that summer job. It must be time for a new mattress. Sigh. I have a friend (whose name I will not sully here) who told me if I laid on my back on the floor, held my legs straight, kept my ankles together, slowly lifted my legs to a 45 degreee angle, and then, while holding that position, slowly moved my legs apart, my back would pop back into place. What said friend didn't say is that if it didn't work, it would take me the rest of the day to get up off the floor.