Pain relief ft. James Boseley

Why do you think construction, the trades, kind of industrial careers, people will often go, like you said, years without addressing an injury and kind of toughing their way through it.

Tell me a bit about that mindset or that culture that may or may not exist.

Yeah, well, I know it exists because I did it myself.

I'll try not to go on a rant again.

No, please rant away.

I'll give you an example.

So for my own story, so I was working on a roll-off truck.

I fell nine feet, and...

I just get adrenaline.

I don't really feel pain much in those moments.

And I came barreling out of the bin and finished my job for the day.

And then in the middle of the night, I got up to go to the washroom, and I did a face plant.

So I struggled through it.

I was eating Robaxacet and Aleve or anything to try and eliminate this, what I thought was just inflammation.

And it turned out that I had shattered my heel.

I broke my leg.

I broke my hip.

And I blowed a disc in my back.

And I worked for four months like that because, you know, I'm sitting there.

I just moved to Vancouver Island.

I was making less than $20 an hour driving truck with 25 years of truck driving and, you know, trades and equipment operating, making that little cash and living in a camper.

So I'm sitting there going, well, I don't have any other option than to get up every morning and go to work.

And there is that tough exterior that we do put on in the trades where it's normal, you know, suck it up.

You're, you're in pain yet for sure, but you got to get out there.

The job still has to get done.