Let’s Get Physical

This is not a back pain newsletter. This is just a tribute.

Illustration by Tony Johnson

“Bro, do you even lift?”

Weights, no. Kids? Of course.

I’ve been lifting them for almost nine years. I developed something called Mommy’s Thumb after the birth of my first. I wore a wrist support for months, meaning I was never more than an hour away from explaining—once again—what this embarrassingly-monikered condition was t…