03/01/2014:

So I didn’t let the hurt back keep me from the Mardi Gras Parades.  Sure it hurt to get into the car, sure it hurt to walk.  I just took small steps at first and as I loosened up I could walk quicker and in less pain.  However, during the parades I would have to keep moving around unless I would start tensing up again and it would hurt to move around again.  Bending over to pick up beads, cups, and other trinkets off the ground was completely out of the question.  However I was still able to make the festivities.

I was standing on the Neutral Ground on the Street Car Tracks on Canal St. near Jefferson Davis for Endymion…