Today, I decided to be thankful for hot showers. I have a neck injury that is compounded by actually 2 shoulder injuries. Driving or just sitting in certain positions causes it all to meld together to one constant ache. I dont like going to doctors enough to actually have pain pills and havent been able to make it to my chiropractor for way too long a time. I also find that the pain pills, to take a level of them that reacts to the pain makes me less functional than I am willing to be so I wouldnt take them if I had them. I have found over events in my life that there is a difference between discomfort, pain, and suffering. Most of what I live with, I catergorize in the level of discomfort. When it becomes a level beyond that to having to medicate for, that is pain. Suffering is what I have watched others go through where there were severe diseases involved or a level of pain that there really was no "cure for". I figure if I can get myself out of bed in the morning and do what I need to do with some over the counter type aids, I have not gone beyond discomfort. Does discomfort hurt? You bet it does. There are days I cant even turn my head more than about 30 degrees, there are other days I cant lift my left arm behond about 45 degrees. Dont get me started on my knees and ankles. But the thing is. After I have watched those around me go through what some of them have gone through, and I have seen what the constant pain meds have done to them, Im not willing to call it anything beyond discomfort.
So, what do I do about mine? Hot showers!!!!! My family cant figure out how I can stand the water as hot as I do. It helps. I also have a heating pad that I pretty much sleep on round the year. Guess what, not side effects to either one of those either. Then there is the new icy hot liniment tape I have found. It is the most remarkable stuff I have found in years. But what is best???? Hot showers.
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