My lower back has been bothering me so I (finally) decided to put cold or heat or something on it. I put a cold pack on the first day, which was nice, but after talking to my husband about it he recommended I use heat. The next day I put a warm rice bag on the area for twenty minutes and started feeling better. The next day (because I can only manage to heat my back once a day - twenty minutes is a long time for a mom of little ones!!) I put the warm rice bag on again and could feel a real difference. So I stopped. The pain wasn't terrible anymore so the twenty minutes disappeared.
Anyway, today my back started really hurting again so my 3 year old daughter asked if I wanted the rice bag. I said thanks and helped her to put it in the microwave flat. I told her to turn it on for 45 seconds then we would turn it over and push the 45 and start again.
She tried and tried and started to get frustrated that it wouldn't work. She normally doesn't have any trouble pushing the buttons on the microwave so I went over to help. She had successfully entered "45" but the "start" button wouldn't push. I tried several times and couldn't get it to work either.
I took the rice bag out of the microwave and told her it was broken and we'd have Daddy look at it when he got home.
My daughter diligently told him about the problem when she saw him and when he came in from farm duties he immediately went to start working on the microwave.
It wasn't even 2 seconds later that he had the microwave happily humming away!
I was astonished! How on earth had he managed it?
