How is your back feeling?
It is slowly improving, but I would not run with it for at least one more week (Thanks for asking)
That is sad :( I don't experience back pain very frequently, but when I do it sucks! My first week in Oxford I had to adjust to the terrible mattress in my room and it took me hours of tossing and turning to fall asleep each night. Now I move the mattress to the floor (because the bed frame sinks in the middle) and manage to fall asleep within just one hour. I miss Sweden, where I slept wonderfully and deeply each night. That might just be because Boris was there, though...
20+ years ago we used to put wooden boards on top of the sagging bad frame and the mattress on top of it. It was hard but it worked.
As far as my back goes - I will be happy if I will be back in just two weeks