In pain?

Blog104:

            Physical pain is so very difficult to live with.  Even looking at someone experiencing pain is just as difficult as living it. 

            When we’re in pain, it is best to just give in to it all the way, “obey” a doctor’s order to take it easy, to relax, and to not constantly think about the pain.  After all, medication prescribed to deal with the source of pain must work its miracles … for at least the duration it must travel from mouth to the pain if it were a pill.   If it were a serum, we must exercise patience and let that liquid to travel the blood stream.  Since there’s nothing much more we could do with pain after all possible treatments and relieving actions have been resourced, getting our minds off it is the next best thing to take up. 

I’d begin with a few tricks to get lost in the limbo of ‘nothing-ness or something-ness’. I’d first pull out those books and magazines I’d postponed reading and/or browsing through.  My mind could travel many different directions and get as far away from my miserable reality.  I’d pull out next those Wii games I purchased, but had not opened and played.  That would at least give me a few hours of diversion.  When I finish those, there’s the constant companion of all time … the tube!  Television channels that both educate and take the mind to distant times in history or exotic places too expensive to get to could easily be reached with a button push!  Think about it; flip the remote to the National Geographic, the Smithsonian, and the History and Discovery channels.  Voila!  One’s mind is off that nagging pain.  After those, there’s the internet to explore and get lost in.  I’ll window-shop, get a book read to me while I do my best to snooze in the process, work on puzzles, get messages through FB, Skype and e-mail to all folks with whom I’ve not exchanged thoughts, then dig deeper for classmates and friends I’ve been wanting to get hold of  in the longest of times.

This panacea for pain I concocted is a sure winner!  If Mickey would just buy into one, two or all of it, his ‘mind-on-the lower back pain from which he’s suffering momentarily, will all go away.

Physical pain … we all live with or without it.  When our bodies tell us we need a break, we shouldn’t go against it!  Pain, bad as it is, reminds us that we’re alive, we’re fragile and vulnerable.  And because we’re mortal, we’re bound to feel all what we could in our lifetime!