It's All Relative

I'm finishing off the last of my medical appointmets in a couple of weeks. I go through several of them at the start of every year, and I've had nothing but good news thus far. My A1C is at 5.6 (prediabetes begins at 5.7 😎). My CT scan showed that there is no movement involved with the stent in my aorta, and all of my bloodwork results came back squeaky clean. So yeah, my body's doing great. Except...I pinched something in my lower back that I think relates to the sciatic nerve. It's at the top of the leg that I injured in the accident, and I can't help but to feel that it's related to the way in which I must compromise the use of that side of my leg and hip in everyhthing that I do. Sciatica is totally painful, but it does go away in time. I've had it for a while, but I really aggravated it on Saturday afternoon while lifting a heavy box. Today is Wednesday, and the pain is significantly less than it was this weekend. I'm pretty certain that the pain will be gone by the beginning of next week.

The weird thing about all of this is the fact that I don't really notice the "regular" pains related to the accident injuries as much when something like this happens. My mind focuses on the more severe pain and ignores the regular stuff. It's almost as though the back issues become more of a debilitating pain, while the accident-related pains sink to the level of just being an annoyance. I guess pain is just relative to where you're at mentally, but it would be great to have it all just go away permanently. I guess headaches would then be awful, relatively speaking.