Wikipedia defines sciatica as set of symptoms including pain that may be caused by general compression and/or irritation of one of five nerve roots that give rise to the sciatic nerve, or by compression or irritation of the sciatic nerve itself. I define it is a pain in my ass. Quite literally, as the pain is felt in the lower back, buttock and various parts of the leg and foot.

I’m an active person, or, at least, I was and wish I still was. Unfortunately the mere act of sitting is currently the bane of my existence. To put it in terms you may be able to understand, imagine a great big wallet in your back pocket, only this wallet has a rock in it...a rock holding a knife and it’s pointed straight at your ass cheek. The fact that I like to run, cycle, play soccer and generally not let age get the best of body only aggravates this devil of a condition. I’ve tried everything. I’ve even gone to a witch doctor..ahem..a chiropractor. I’m pretty sure that just made it worse.

My sciatica is compounded by my SI joint dysfunction. I’m not going to get into what that means. Just know that it basically means my back, groin, and hip hurt. This too, is also worst when sitting. Guess what I do all day?

Currently, it’s all pretty bad, which is why the little bitch of a condition is getting a whole blog post dedicated to it. Fuck you sciatic nerve and SI joint dysfunction. Fuck you.

To the fat, bearded redneck who kept looking back at me in his side mirrors: what the fuck are you looking at? Secondly, why the fuck is your side mirror set to where I can see your face if I'm directly behind you? If I can see your face and you can see mine, then you've got your shit adjusted improperly. Rear view mirrors are for seeing what's directly behind you, side mirrors are for seeing what is to the side of you, you dumb shit! They're supposed to be tilted out enough so you can see the spot that is just outside of your peripheral vision and just outside of what you can't see in your rearview mirror. That's called the blind spot and if you adjust your mirrors right, you don't have one...and also I won't have to see your dumb, fat, plaid wearing, Nextel talking, fish hook in the camouflage ball cap face staring back at me.

In your defense, you're not the first fool to do this. Somewhere along the line, people forgot or just plain never knew in the first place how to do adjust mirrors. There's two exceptions to this rule (yes, rule.) If you don't have a rear window (cargo van, tractor trailers) or your rear window is obscured. None of these were the case. So suck it...and stop looking at me.