It’s okay, it’s just pain. — Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs
Pain is a daily companion, and it has been for years. The snap, crackle, and pop of getting out of bed is quickly followed by the creak of joints and the soreness of old injuries. I’m more fortunate than a lot of people. I have access to treatments and medicines which will keep me going, and after a couple of hours it’s just background noise, not a crescendo of discomfort.
I’m also fortunate because this is something that’s come on slowly over a couple of decades. I know people where it came overnight, or even in the blink of an eye. I have everything I was born with, and many don’t. My pain is inconvenient, but for some its debilitating. My pain will last me decades. There are people whose pain will only last a few more years, and they wish for longer.
It’s okay, it’s just pain. It could be a lot worse.
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Old NFO
/ November 6, 2014Yep, it could be… And they DO ‘sneak’ up on one…
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Wing and a Whim
/ November 6, 2014Half the reason I’m so very loopy when on good painkillers isn’t because I’m high – it’s because I’m so used to the pain that I don’t know how to function without it. It’s awfully hard to walk when you don’t have your knees sending warning twinges to tell you your knee is at full (as it gets) extension, or when to slow down your arm and hand reaching for something if your shoulder doesn’t get tight toward the end of the arc. My body and brain are as discombobulated and floundering on serious painkillers as a fish pulled out of water. (Except with more breathing.)
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daddybear71
/ November 7, 2014I’ve had the same sensation. When I was on medication after surgery, all of the normal aches and pains were masked, so I actually felt pretty good. That seemed to worry my doctor.
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pediem
/ November 6, 2014I keep reminding myself that…that things could be a whole lot worse. And all I have to do is look around the waiting room every month when I see my rheum for a visual gut check on that. It could, indeed.
I’ll take the hand I was dealt this round and play it for all I’ve got. Again.
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auntiejl
/ November 8, 2014My dad and I discussed this very thing recently. He remarked that he was once told that pain is a sign that you’re alive. And, he said, he usually feels VERY alive first thing in the morning, and less so as the day goes on.
I was both amused and contemplative over this thought, until the day my ankle’s arthritis and degenerative joint disease flared up so badly at the end of the day that I felt even more alive at the end of the day. Then I wasn’t so amused.
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daddybear71
/ November 8, 2014Life is pain. Anyone who tells you different is selling something.
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