Nov
24

Thursday

It has been an up and down morning. Woke up with a migraine. I average 3 migraines per week. My legs were tingling a lot. My left arm is half numb. My arm seems to stay half numb now. I don’t know why. It makes it hard to do stuff. Even typing the blog is a challenge. Backspace is going to get worn out fast.

My little girl is sick again. We have been sitting doing a puzzle. Wish I could get up and do some cleaning. Never thought that I would even wish I could clean. Now it is a wonderful thing to be able to do it. Over the last couple of years I have been going down hill fast. Wish the doctors could figure out what is going on. All I ask is for them to do there job. No to much to ask is it?

Anyway! My back is burning bad and it feels like someone is pinching me. My privates are numb and burning. At least yesterday wasn’t too bad. Gave me a little break. The weather is changing again. That might be why I have more pain today.

I will update the blog more through the day.

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Nov
23

My life in words

I have been living with pain for quite a while now. For the last 3 years I have not been able to work. I set up this blog for my own purpose. I just want to write my thoughts and feelings somewhere. I am leaving the blog open to people so they can see it, comment or post their own experiences. I will post things on here as often as possible. Anyone who has chronic pain knows that some days are good, some are bad. On bad days, all I really can do is nothing. Those days I probably won’t post.

Please use this site appropriately and be courteous to others. I don’t know if anyone will use the site or not but if people do, I want nothing but respect for others. This site belongs to me and I will delete anything I deem inappropriate.

 

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Nov
23

Wednesday

The weather isn’t to bad today. I woke up feeling not too bad. My legs tingled a little and my lower back is burning. I have a little bit of stabbing pain in my lower back. Nothing much compared to the last couple of weeks.

I just ate lunch and have to sit and relax. My back is aching a lot. The front and sides of my upper lags are quite numb and a bit tingly. my lower legs feel like they are asleep.  My left arm is around half numb and feeling weak. The numbness goes up to my shoulder.

I just got done cleaning my little girls room. It only took me around 10 minutes. Just doing that has cause me to have a lot of pain in my private area. It is burning really bad. It has a pain that is half way between dull and sharp. I had to sit and relax. My feet are almost completely numb now. Makes it hard to walk.

It is almost supper now. My left leg is burning so bad I just want to cry. I have done very little since I cleaned my daughters room.  Maybe the weather is changing. The weather is my worst enemy. I just went through 3 weeks of bad weather. I wasn’t able to much in that time. I spent a lot of time on the couch watching tv. I don’t like watching tv. I would much rather be outside having fun. There is so much in life to do.

I have to try to make supper. When I hurt this much I have to make something simple. I am not sure what that will be. Last night was tacos. My wife helped with it. I might just ask her to make supper tonight. I think I might be hurting to much to eat anyway. I have a lot of days that I am hurting too much to eat. I have meal replacements on hand for those days. They taste horrible but it works.

It is now almost 9 pm. I had to go to the drug store to get my girl some medicine. She has the flu. I do to but I am on enough meds that I don’t need to take any more. It is only a block away so we walked. By the time I got home my legs felt weak and they are tingling and burning like crazy. We watched a movie this evening so I just relaxed. I have to keep moving around though. Staying in one spot makes my legs go numb. I need to change positions every 5 minutes or so. The pain in my lower back is not to bad. I only get the sharp pain every 10 to 15 minutes. It is nice to have an easy day. It really helps to lift my spirits.

Like I have already said, the last 3 weeks have been hell. At times suicide was a viable option. I don’t really want to but when the pain is that bad for that long and I am on that many meds, I really do question weather I should or not. Many people wouldn’t understand why. Only someone that has experienced this much pain could truly understand. But, I have a wonderful wife and a wonderful daughter that need me. So they say anyway.

Time for me to put my girl to bed and wait for my wife to get home. I can’t go to bed until she gets home because I need a sleeping pill to sleep. If I don’t take it the pain will keep me awake most of the night. I can’t take the pill til she gets home just in case my daughter needs something. If my wife is home she can take care of her. She is a good wife and friend and mom.

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