Pain management.

lady_express_44 · 10-24-2008, 06:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Snoopy

Cherie, I would bet everything I have, which isn't much

, that you would persevere and then tell everyone else how to accomplish it

You would go on just as I have, just like many others have.

Everyone has different coping skills and when put to the test we can suprise ourselves in our ability to keep going even under the most difficult circumstances.

I believe (for me) adapting to pain is also about acceptance. My pain is what it is, it's not leaving (yet

) but I still have a life to live. If the medical community can't find something to help then it's all up to me to find and pull out the inner strength I know is there inside me.

You are probably right, Snoopy.

I definitely did not mean to imply that anyone else should follow my current train of thought either.

I just know that it has been TOO much on a few occasions, and I am thankful that it let up when it did.

Thanks for the reality check though.

Quote:

Originally Posted by MSDave

One thing I forgot, in all of this, there is no competition; no "well my pain is worse than your's," or "I have dealt with this longer than you, so I know better...." We are all on the same ship, going the same direction. This ship is a working one, and as such, it takes all of us working together to make the ship head into calmer waters..

That doesn't seem to happen much around here anyway, Dave, although I have seen it on other forums. Generally speaking, any time people mention their situation it is meant as encouragement for others; that they too CAN get through their challenges.

Cherie

MSDave · 10-29-2008, 01:54 PM

"That doesn't seem to happen much around here anyway, Dave, although I have seen it on other forums. Generally speaking, any time people mention their situation it is meant as encouragement for others; that they too CAN get through their challenges."

No! I didn't mean to imply it did here, and now we're on it, that is an amazing feat that not all sites like this can boast about. It shows that people are paid attention to and not ignored.

There was a feature of pain management that I myself, still have yet to figure out how to deal with, hair-trigger anger. I go off in a flash when I'm in the higher end of the pain scale and someone does something dumb to cause more pain. Especially after it was pointed out to them.

That or when I'm trying to get help in relieving the pain through movement. Because I am an OLD solder, I tend to be a bit.... direct when it comes to instruction/requests. I know this and am working hard at fixing that.

But after explaining the nature of the pain, and then explaining briefly what I would like to happen to take the pressure off, to a nursing assistant, and they still cause pain.... well you get the idea.

So in the category of pain management, I think I have everything covered, EXCEPT that is, the anger feature.

MSDave

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