From the srudio that brought you My Left Foot comes…
OK, not really.
It’s just that my right knee is the latest part of my dying body to go wonky on me and I am so very very sick of this shit.
My knee feels rather stiff and sore and worst of all… loose. My guests is that there is something inflaming the are underneath the kneecap and that’s both causing the stiff sore feeling and pushing up on the kneecap from below.
This brings up the terrifying possibility of the kneecap
I threw up in my mouth a littlr just from typing thar.
So please, Whoever, keep my kneecap in place until whatever this is goes away.
Leave me the ability to walk at least as well as I do now.
Right now, though, my most pressing problem is that I just woke up from a nap feeling absolutely and utterly terrible.
Everything aches. Every joint is stiff. Every muscle burns.
I think I am coming down with a disease I just made up called omnititis, or inflammation of the everything.
THIS JUST IN! Joe thinks he may have the flu.
Um, yeah, me too, now that you mention it.
Well ain’t this just fine and fucking dandy. On top of all the rest of the crap I’ve got to deal with, now I’ve caught some kinda bug.
Looks like we’re not going to Denny’s tonight after all.
Son of a bitch.
I sure hope Naproxen can at least turn down the burning.
More after the break.
For which I thank God
Well, the good news is that I feel much better now. In fact, I feel so much better that I ended up going to Denny’s after all, though sadly without Joe.
We have the same bug, methinks, but Ihave some he doesn’t : drugs.
Yes, I owe my miraculous “recovery” to my beloved Three Musketeers of Gabapentin, Naproxen, and acetaminophen. Took a little while for them to kick in but when thry did, all those body aches and muscle pains were gone, Daddy, gone.
So right now, I’m living on pills, for which I thank God.
I mean, I am always living on pills. Loads of them. And they all help keep me alive, and thank Whoever for that.
But they have never saved me from terrible pain like a superhero like my little cocktail did, except perhaps in the long term.
I can still feel the aches et al but as sensations both faint and remote.
Sure am glad I ain’t feeling all of THAT.
Gabapentin is definitely the best pain relief I’ve ever had from a pill because it takes the pain away without making me dopey or sleepy or Doc.
It just turns the volume down on the pain.
Eventually, the meds will run out and I will have to re-up and take more.
But until then, bab5, I’m flyin’.
I will talk to you nice people again tomorrow.