Pain monster comes out to play
so probably no new story today
but there are 100s here on Wordpress and 1000s on my Blogger site
so here's an old piece about pain
Pain Fear and God ©
By Michael Casey
Today
is Good Friday, the day Jesus was crucified. Hugo Chavez is praying for
his life we are told. So it makes me wonder when do we, all of us pray?
I have to declare an interest straight away, I've had tennis elbow for
nearly 4 months now and boy oh boy does it hurt. I cannot lift anything,
not even the kettle. This would be bad enough in itself but for the
fact that I've ricked my back badly. In fact the pain is the worst I've
ever had in my life.
So Hugh is praying to be spared, I'm
doing a bit of praying too, but my breath is being taken away by pain.
The smell of Deep Heat fills our house, the girls retreat to the garden
for fresh air. I can stand for 10 mins or sit and write here for 30mins,
after that I have to lie down because the pain is so much. I don't want
to pop pips so Deep Heat and hot baths are my tools of choice. My
mother used to have bucket loads of pain killers for her bad back but
she never took them, she just used to collect them over the pantry door.
"Jeekus" she used to wince and half scream through her pain. So I hope
its not hereditary.
We all pray when we are in pain, we
pray the pain will end soon. Perhaps pain helps teaches us humility,
everything sure is in perspective when all you can think of is your
elbow or your back. My back has been playing up for 2 weeks on this
occasion, how people live in pain and in wheelchairs makes me wonder. My
Aunty Mary was in a wheelchair for the last 13years of her life after a
stroke, her rosary keep her sane. We have test cases for the right to
die, after my own pain filled recent experiences I see things more
fully, through the prism of pain. I applaud pain relief experts, I have
to lie down now for a bit before I write any more.
My
daughter just threw "TonY" her toy at me so I'll get up and finish. Pain
can destroy us, but it does clear the clutter of our daily lives, it
makes us remember and enjoy the real things in our lives. I really enjoy
the taste of food, the experience is heightened, ordinary food tastes
like a 5star restaurant experience, and I may just be talking about a
bit of toast and peanut butter. If when I finally get better I can
remember the real values, of nice simple food, and enjoying watching tv
with my kids then all the pain will be worth it. Yes I know I'll get
negative replies to this but, I always learn the hard way which is the
best way. Yes I hope I'll never be in such pain again, but if all our
lives we live a feather bed existence then we are not really
experiencing life. Life includes pain.
*************
I must have written that several years go, now I have even more varieties of pain.
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