Today I have stopped the painkillers - well, the day before yesterday actually when I ran out of codeine.
Welcome to the self dancing legs, hot/cold flushes and flights of bats.
Great.
Watch this space for a full report of the Swedish trip.
Current Pain Rating (hand): 1
The pain currently on 1 though.
ReplyDeleteThe Codeine jag ain't no jag at all
Bit that lip and ponder all that physio to come.
Time to make pain your friend.
Remember your training.
Pain is the mind-killer.
Pain is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my pain.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the pain has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.
The Brown Gusset Sisterhood
Ha, me and pain are long time bedfellows my friend. True, the codeine comedown is minor in the great scheme of things, but still irritating. Nevertheless, it must be done.
ReplyDeleteThe training has stood me in good stead through the years and this is a useful paraphrasing of the litany. I will meditate on it as my physiotherapist manipulates the thumb joint.
As for the Brown Gusset Sisterhood, PLEASE do not tell them of my whereabouts, I had enough trouble with those buggers in the late '80's.