Said in Lawrence of Arabia<\/i> and Prometheus<\/i>.<\/p>\n
On Friday, I had a minor medical procedure…which itself I didn’t really mind much. But it was the pain that increased afterwards…that I minded.<\/p>\n
Normally, I am the type that will deal with the pain. I bear it with gritted teeth. Sometimes thinking that this is reality, after all. Pain is the burden of being human\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthat we are tied to our bodies.<\/p>\n
This time though on Friday as I was writhing on my bed from the pain…I thought aloud, “Ok I will take the doctor prescribed pain medication. Yes, please.”<\/p>\n
So I shuffled to Walgreens, barely 2 blocks away. At the pharmacy, I recognized the woman who had mangled my photo order a few weeks earlier\u00e2\u20ac\u201dsomehow wasting more than 10 minutes trying to find my single print when it turned out to be in front of her. Why was she at the cashier?!<\/i> But I could barely see through the fog of numbing pain. Just give it to me.<\/i><\/p>\n
Fifteen minutes, I downed it. An hour later, I regretted it. Instead of pain, I was overcome by nausea and could not keep anything down. This kind of state continued for another 8 hours as I forced myself through the regular tasks of the day.<\/p>\n
Nausea? I would take pain any day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Said in Lawrence of Arabia and Prometheus. On Friday, I had a minor medical procedure…which itself I didn’t really mind much. But it was the pain that increased afterwards…that I minded. Normally, I am the type that will deal with … Continue reading