The pain of it all
I remember bragging that I’ve never been stung by a bee, broken a bone, needed to stay in the hospital, and that I have no allergies. I’ve lived a relatively healthy life, free of pain. Last Wednesday I had all four of my third molars removed. I was put asleep for the actual surgery and so, there are no horror stories involving the operation. The horror is, I believe, the days that have followed. Just this afternoon I made the rather bold (and melodramatic) statement to Nate:
"This has been the most miserable week of my life."
Okay, so I’ve lived a rather spoiled life and I’ve been lucky in terms of health and access to health care. But I’m still standing by that statement. When I look in the mirror I can’t help but notice my face has swollen into the size of a hot air balloon. This isn’t the worst of it but it doesn’t help, either.
My cell phone has been on silent for the past few days. (I haven’t been talking very often, in order to minimize use of my jaw.) This has been a very interesting experiment and I recommend it to anyone who needs a break from the world. I will be in touch with family and friends once I feel like I’m ready. Until then, I’ll be healing.
"This has been the most miserable week of my life."
Okay, so I’ve lived a rather spoiled life and I’ve been lucky in terms of health and access to health care. But I’m still standing by that statement. When I look in the mirror I can’t help but notice my face has swollen into the size of a hot air balloon. This isn’t the worst of it but it doesn’t help, either.
My cell phone has been on silent for the past few days. (I haven’t been talking very often, in order to minimize use of my jaw.) This has been a very interesting experiment and I recommend it to anyone who needs a break from the world. I will be in touch with family and friends once I feel like I’m ready. Until then, I’ll be healing.
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I'm sorry that you are in so much pain and things are so miserable right now. But you have to remember that "this too shall pass". Just hang in there. You will come out stronger than ever!!
Suffering is rather relative. My husband was in a traffic accident, and suffered numerous broken ribs, collapsed lung, and we are still waiting to see if he re-broke his back (ugh)...so things were recently put into perspective for me when I was putting my slide together for myspace and found numerous pics of victims of war on google. After flinching at the many pics of burned children or grieving parents, I realized most of our western trauma is on the light scale compared to many others in the world.
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