Brokeback Browns

By some unfortunate turn of events, both Todd and I are having back troubles.  He was bent in a crescent moon shape for almost two weeks, despite Urgent Care and chiropractic visits and muscle relaxers.  I can barely walk (and when I do, the pain is excruciating) due to some pulled, strained, or angry muscles in my lower back/hip area which is throwing my hips out of alignment, coupled with sciatica from my pregnancy running down the other side of my body. I would love to be able to take a muscle relaxer or something stronger than tylenol if I weren't pregnant, if only to feel like I was maybe getting better.  After 5 days and one chiropractic visit during which the chiropractor was having a hard time adjusting me given my enlarged baby belly and the high amount of relaxin running through my body, I still feel as worse as I did days ago...only with less optimism.  Both Todd and I have reported not having time for "this crap", as we've got too many physical items we need to take care of (in the middle of a master bath remodel and turning the guest room into a baby's room) on top of parenting an energetic, never-still, near-5 yr old.  So frustrating!  I told Todd at least the baby isn't here, yet, because neither of us would be able to get up and take care of anything.  The bright side is I'm encouraging a lot more independence for Boden--he's resistant as it is so much better when mom does things for him, but in this current state, it takes me longer to do whatever it is than him, so his options are  to wait patiently (not that good at) or argue with me (he's really good at this) and then do it himself.