Isn't this week over yet?

[cstephens]

Originally Posted by tracilicious

And to top it off I have things running through my head like, "There are people that would kill to have small problems like cricked necks." Damn you mind for not letting me enjoy my self-pity.

Feel free to bitch and moan here to make me feel better about doing it.

OK, make you feel better...well, I have the same thing running through my head about how my problems are minor compared to lots of other people, but it doesn't make me feel any better. It's not so much self-pity, but it just doesn't make me accept my situation any better.

I have a medical condition that generally keeps me at some level of pain at all times. I've been trying to ignore it as much as I can and refrain from popping pain pills all the time. Several years ago, I was up to 800 milligrams of Advil every 3 hours - and even that wasn't working. It hasn't been that bad in recent years, but that's because I'm on other medications/treatments to help alleviate the pain. The last week or so, though, the pain has been a bit hard to ignore, and regular ibuprofen hasn't been doing the job, so last night, I decide to step it up a notch and throw some vicodin at it. Vicodin reacts with me oddly and unpredictably. Sometimes, it doesn't do anything, sometimes it just takes the pain away with no side effects, sometimes it takes the pain away with some side effects like fuzziness and sleepiness, and sometimes, it just makes me violently ill. Guess which effect it had on me last night, after I had dinner? And some of the effects are still lasting into this morning, so I seriously considered not coming into work today, but I finally dragged myself out of bed really late and forced myself to come in. My boss is pretty understanding about these sorts of things, so that wasn't a problem, for which I am extremely grateful. But I'm ready for this particular bout of elevated pain and generally "I feel crappy"ness to subside.

Feel better?