Re: I've got the whine - Who's bringing the cheese?
- From: "Jofirey" <jofirey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:21:37 -0700
"Nann Bell" <hanbellGOGATORS@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
Before you claim not to be stoic, think back to the last *really*
good day
(relatively speaking) you had. Remember how the whole world seemed
different
because your pain was so much better that day? I'm grateful for
getting
those days occasionally to remind me I'm not being a total wimp
about things,
that just because my pain is chronic doesn't make it mild!
Like in the ER 3 weeks ago, when I considered my lower abdominal
pain to be a
minor issue compared to the nausea. It wasn't good, but I'd only
put it at
an 8 or maybe even a 7. I was stunned when they gave me dilaudid
for it! It
sure helped though and the toradol I got upstairs made it easy to
sleep some.
Maybe I hurt more tahn realized and I'll betcha that can be applied
to most
of us here.
I mean, seriously, how could we keep going as much as we do if we
let a full
awareness of how much we hurt seep into our consciousness?
That's one reason I make a point of not talking about how I feel most
of the time. It doesn't make me feel any better so it doesn't serve
any useful purpose.
You remind me of my first bout with kidney stones. I wasn't in good
shape when my dad and Charlie took me into the doctors office. They
put me in a wheel chair, gave me a shot (Dilaudid or some equivalent)
and sent my off to XRay. When I got back to the doctors office, he
told them that the pain shot was as much of a diagnostic tool as the
xray. That if I had not been in severe pain, it would have knocked me
out.
I drive 45 miles to my RD's office. So I'm almost always pretty stiff
and sore when I get there. More than once I've walked into the office
not thinking I was doing all that badly. And literally burst into
tears when the nurse did a pain assessment.
I do not usually have the degree of pain that many of you live with.
And I don't have the degree of joint damage. I even have days and
weeks when I do really well and start thinking this isn't such a bad
thing and hasn't cost me all that much. I even forget its cost me my
hearing.
Truth is I feel better when I forget.
Jo
.
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