The events you are now ready to read about are taken from a period before Oliver’s encounter with Carol Addison.

After being eaten by each of the previous giantesses, he had often been in the habit of teleporting safely out of her stomach and back to his home in Australia. Over a period of time, he had developed a pain in his back, when lying on it. He hadn’t felt a thing while walking around, or sitting on a chair without touching the back too heavily. It only occurred while he was lying down, on his back. If he turned to the side, he could sleep comfortably without the pain, but when his back made contact with the mattress, one part of it felt like he was being stabbed with a chisel. So Oliver consulted a general practitioner and asked for an x-ray, which then disclosed nothing. He took the x-ray to a chiropractor who ordered another x-ray, but this one being of the lumbar region just below the location of the general practitioner’s x-ray. The second x-ray revealed a pars spondyleothesis (a rare form of antelerothesis) at the L2-3 vertebrae in the lumbar region of the spine. He had damaged a disc, which could no longer support the bone. So a bone had moved seven millimeters into a jutting out position, resulting in immense pain whenever he lay on it, as the nerves were severely pinched by the displaced bone on one side and the pressure of the mattress on the other. The chiropractor told him that he would either have the problem going forward, and have to treat it regularly with chiropractic appointments to push the displaced bone back, or he could have spinal fusion surgery to fuse the bone to the one the above it, so that it couldn’t move any more.

Oliver remembered something that he couldn’t possibly tell the chiropractor. She had offered the theory that a pars birth defect had caused the problem. However, Oliver remembered a time had impatiently tried to move a giant object at the home of one of his giantess friends. She had been out, and he had not wanted to wait for her return. He had moved the object himself, felt a huge pain start in his back, and then felt it go away after a week of enduring it. He had assumed that the subsidence of the pain had meant that he had nothing more to worry about, just a strained muscle healing over seven days. What he hadn’t been aware of then, was that he had damaged the disc, and that the bone had started to move out of place. When it had reached a displacement of seven millimeters, the newer nerve pinching pain had begun.

So began the most soul destroying saga of his life, and he couldn’t even tell anyone on earth the secret of what had really caused it. He went back to the general practitioner with both x-rays and the chiropractor’s diagnosis, and was given a referral to a spinal surgeon, who could not see him for another six weeks, because of a long waiting period.