A few weeks ago the pocket of scar tissue in my liver I have been worried about tore open (click here for that story). The horse had decided to lift up the pieces of his panel fencing and take it apart so he could go for a little walk. I decided I couldn’t have him […]
Tag Archives: pain management
In reading other people’s blogs about chronic pain I have noticed I don’t say much about how I feel about mine. Then I realized that is because I find my chronic pain really boring. The words the dictionary uses to define boring include tedious, wearisome, dreary, monotonous, pointless, and mind-numbing, while near synonyms include debilitating, […]
A friend of mine remarked that in the pain scale she learned in her medical training, my level four was her level ten. On her scale, level ten was calibrated as kidney/gall stones, toothache, childbirth, and the like. That made sense to me as once my liver actually starts moving out the lumps of old […]