OW!

[cjsmith]

Busy frantic stressed not-sleeping stressed AH DONE WITH ONE THING maybe-I-can-sleep...

...and the abdominal pain chose this evening to attack, really attack. It hasn't been this bad (nor has it come on this fast) for ages. I feel like I'm being eaten alive, from the inside, by something with very sharp teeth. Probably a Langolier.

Oddly enough (given that this is direct nerve pain, and given last Thursday's procedure) I've got it only on the left so far. Hmmmmmm. Veddy intedesting.

Tonight is a wine AND painkillers night. Anyone who wants to scold me, raise your hand if you know you don't break under torture. Please speak up if you can teach me how.

Thank goodness this wasn't last week. Prep for the Bier block included no anti-inflammatories (of the kinds I've got sitting around the house) for seven days. I wouldn't have made it. (Some times I could, but not with a level like this.) I would have had to reschedule.

Night-night. Maybe I can sleep. Maybe.

Comments

I'm jealous

[airporter.livejournal.com]

You can do wine and painkillers?

May you feel better soon, hon.

Re: I'm jealous

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm not ALLOWED. I just DO. :-)

May you feel better too, man. Pain sucks.

[klwalton.livejournal.com]

I do wine, painkillers, Benedryl and sleeping pills. All at the same time. And yet, I live! (And, occasionally, sleep!)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yay for strong constitutions! Or whatever the heck it is. :-)

[ohhjuliet.livejournal.com]

*hug* Feel better!

What kind of abdominal pain? (just hearing the words make me shudder)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I can just imagine! How ARE you feeling lately, by the way? I know you're tired -- how's the pain level?

Me, I have pinched nerves along the sides of my lower abdomen, causing what I thought for years was "bad menstrual cramps". Little did I know that people don't have cramps out near the hip bone. After it was properly diagnosed we got it more under control with hormones, but it's not completely under control, and some times it just goes kablooey.

[sunnydale47.livejournal.com]

I didn't know what a Langolier is, so I went to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langolier). Now I know. It's a great metaphor for what you're feeling, but oh, Sweetie, I'm so sorry you're having such excruciating pain.

I'm glad you have wine and painkillers. Sounds like a good way to escape the pain for awhile.

=HUGE BUT GENTLE HUGS=

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

That is a truly awful movie, by the way. The animation of the Langoliers is almost laugh-inducing. But they do have a lot of teeth.

Wine and painkillers turned out to be enough to let me sleep. WOOHOO! I have another, more normal dose in me this morning (well, not the wine, obviously) and I'm being reasonably alert here in the office. Better living through chemistry!

[dizzdvl.livejournal.com]

Wine and painkillers.




I prefer beer and painkillers ;)

I hope you at least added a chocolate chip cookie in there for the true trifecta of stuff that doesn't go together, but sure does work well together ;)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Hahaha! Now I wish I'd done that!