I feel like a hit & run victim

I got up this morning feeling like a victim of a hit & run during the night - And the worst part is that the vehicle in question was a steam roller....... And that wasn't intended to be funny.

My back hurts so bad that I can hardly roll over or sit up in bed, even with the use of the trapeze that Carl & Chris built for me - despite taking a couple of Loratab and a couple oh 1/2 tablets of Percocet during the night.

If that weren't bad enough my sciatic nerves have been hurting so bad during the night that my thighs feel like a burn victim - one that still has someone stabbing them with a knitting needle every few minutes.

But wait, it gets even better. My back and thighs hurt so much during the night (all as a result of me being upright enought to go to SKC yesterday) that I tried not to move around too much during a sleep-deprived night. Unfortunately my knees paid the price.

How many out there have ever had to deboned a chicken or turkey and physically broke the drumstick off the thigh bone at the joint? That is exactly what my knees feel like when after either standing or walking on them more than 5 minutes a day or trying to bend them after not doing so for a while.

I call thus trifecta of symptoms a Triple Play and I get them for a minim of 24-36 hours after every "outing" to a doctors office or elsewhere.

Are my discriptions graphic? I guess they probably are - but how else would you understand what my quality of life is like? I go through a box of kleenix every week from wiping the tears from my eyes and often wake up with one or both eyes almost crusted shut with dried tears.

Doctors like to get you to measure your pain on a scale of 1-10. My constant pilain level stays between a 4 and a 6 but frequently spikes to a 8-9 when that midget stabs me in the leg or when the jolly green giant attempts
to "debone me" by wrenching my lower leg off at the knee.

So.... If you really want to imaging yourself in my position, imaging that you are hospitalized following a traffic accident of some sort. Your lower back hurts su much that you can hardly move and the outside of both thighs have suffered severe burns ( making it painful to even touch or cover up). Dozens of times a day, regardless of whether I am awake or asleep) an invisible man uses a sharp lettener opener to stab those burned areas to the bone without any warning whatsoever. If all that weren't bad enough, Hulk Hogan makes several attempts to wrench your leg off at the knee so that he can fight you with it.

To add insult to injury (the the recovery time fir these symptoms increases every time I have to leave the house without sufficient recovery time from the last excursion...) I have to go to Monroe for smother knee injection after lunch....

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