A note toward how to manage continual or growing pain
May 16, 2008 at 6:49 pm Leave a comment
Mine has become continual. Part of the problem may be that I resisted seeking professional help (as in medical) as long as possible. Might not be, too; my left leg is set crooked.
I had a while today where it wasn’t overmastering, though, so I fought it, and I think that’s the first step. Unfortunately I pretty well spent what I had on petty things like house-cleaning and walking to the store a half mile away. I’ll be able to drive again in August if I don’t have another seizure. It seems ironic that the medicines prescribed were causing me seizures and I get penalized for it.
I do have good luck, too. People keep telling me about it. I keep thinking about reading the post of a friend of mine near the financial edge and how I’d identified with it. I need to go to the Veteran’s Service Office, which really isn’t yet within walking range (about 2 1/4 miles, maybe? 3?). Because I have PTSD. Which has oddly enough prevented me from going anyway.
–Glenn
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