Pain Management

Here’s a weird thing concerning today’s topic…consistent pain is easier to manage than pain that comes and goes with time and activity. My mind can adapt to consistent pain and learn to ignore it. It’s something that you sort of train yourself to live with. On the other hand, occasional or circumstantial pain leaves no reasonable time for mental adjustment or adaptation. The problem is that my brain relaxes, enjoys life, and then has to cope with the onslaught of pain all over again.

Yesterday was an unusually difficult day for me. To be truthful, I experience some level of pain somewhere on my body every day. The motorcycle accident caused enough injuries to leave my body with several options for pain location and severity daily. It’s usually something that can easily be considered as “mild pain”, but yesterday the discomfort involved a greater degree of pain with my pelvis and my lower leg. It all became a hindrance to being able to walk normally as the day progressed. I was also feeling a little bit “lightheaded” during the second half of the day so, yeah, fun times. The lower half of my one leg was swollen badly by the time that I arrived at home in the evening, and the discomfort was a little consuming. I sometimes grow tired of living this way, but there’s nothing that I can do about any of it. Surgery isn’t a wise or practical option at this time, and I refuse to live a life of physical or mental dependence on any type of prescription or over-the-counter pain medication (uh, check out the potential side effects associated with something as simple as Advil some time). So, for now, I just have to adjust to a life of adjustment. Crazy, right?