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[rivka]

Whenever a storm system's moving in after several clear days - on a day like today, for example - it starts up.

"Hey," my body says suggestively. "You have a metal spike through your thigh. A metal spike. Right down the middle of your thighbone. Shouldn't that hurt?"

"Shut up," I say. "I have a little residual stiffness and pain in my hip from the hip replacement, sure. But my thigh never hurt the whole time I had severe arthritis in the hip, and it doesn't hurt nineteen days out of twenty now that I don't have severe arthritis in the hip, so you must just be trying to make me imagine things."

"Throb. Throb. Throb," my body says in response. "A big ol' metal spike, that's what you have. Right through your thigh."

"Shut up," I explain. And maybe it does, for five minutes.

Then: "Throb." "Shut up!"

It's going to be like this all day. Damn it.

Comments

[ex-serenejo.livejournal.com]

Fuck. Wish I could make it shut up for you. *hugs* if you want them.

[elisem.livejournal.com]

Oh, argh. I don't suppose you could get your body trying to write fiction or do something else that would occupy and distract it on storm system days, huh?

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Sadly, my body is apparently quite capable of multitasking.

[papersky.livejournal.com]

Have you tried Tiger Balm? Or "Deep Heat" for that matter, but Tiger Balm is cheaper and works better. What it's supposed to be for is muscular aches, but I also find it very soothing for bizarre body-not-fitting-together-right-in-damp-weather twinges that have no business doing that.

Might be worth trying. Beyond that, I hope for pleasanter weather for you soon.

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

Owie. :(

I'm so glad my pain isn't affected by weather, and I'm glad you've had your hip replaced. But it sucks to know that all they can do is make it mostly better, not 100% pain-free.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

But it sucks to know that all they can do is make it mostly better, not 100% pain-free.

The thing about the thigh pain is that it's new. I think I handle the residual pain and stiffness from the old hip problems a lot better. But the thigh pain really does seem to come from the spike that holds the artificial hip in place, and it just feels... more wrong than the more "natural" pains I get.

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

Does that mean it's something to discuss with a doctor?

[rivka.livejournal.com]

No, no, that's not the kind of "wrong" I mean. It feels emotionally wrong, not physically wrong. I mean, okay, any kind of nonconsensual physical pain feels physically wrong, but... okay, let me start over.

There are perfectly acceptable medical reasons for it to hurt where it hurts, and the amount of pain is not totally out of line with what someone might expect from the site of an old break. It just doesn't have the same habitual expectedness to it that pains in the places that have hurt all my life do.

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

There are perfectly acceptable medical reasons for it to hurt where it hurts, and the amount of pain is not totally out of line with what someone might expect from the site of an old break.

That's what was unclear to me. Then good. I'm glad it's not something new that you need to find treatment for.

[jilesa.livejournal.com]

*wry smile*

I also have a metal rod going from hip to knee (in my left leg). Mine doesn't bother me unless it's cold and damp, but I sympathize intensely.

(And since all of my thoughts lead to the new house these days, a tangent: I'm going to be SO glad I have the hot tub and the whirlpool jets in the bathtub this winter. The only thing that helps the cold-related achiness in that leg is soaking in hot water.)

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Yeah, hot baths or a hot tub are the best. A little hard to manage when I'm at work, though. I'm definitely going to hit the bathtub after tonight's Meetup for Dean.

Yay for you having a hot tub in the new house!

[trinker.livejournal.com]

Several years ago, my mother bought me a barley-filled neck warmer/cooler. She got hers for bad headaches, but I've been using it for days when my hip goes on strike. I heat it in the microwave for 3 minutes. I don't have an office at the moment, but if I did, I'd keep it in my desk drawer for emergencies.

[jilesa.livejournal.com]

Yay for you having a hot tub in the new house!

Just so you know, you (collectively, you, Misha, Bill, whoever) are invited to stop by once I'm moved in and settled for dinner and to use the hot tub and/or pool if you'd like. As much as I'll enjoy having it for myself, sharing it with folks is at least part of the fun of having such things. :)

[trinker.livejournal.com]

Oof. Do hot baths and things help?

Meanwhile, I'll just hope that the system goes through quickly...I hate having a built-in barometer.

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

you want i should loan you a hacksaw?

*hug*

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Hee! Let me tell you, it crosses my mind.

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

the one that i live with, horrible man that he is, consistently refuses to bring me a hacksaw when i am too limpy to get one myself. grrr! grr i tell you!

[rmjwell.livejournal.com]

First off, I hope your body, the metal spike, and the weather can come to some non-throbbing compromise (or, if throbbing must be involved, some outcome that is much more pleasant for you).

That said, I'm reminded of a button a freind of mine used to have that read "Personifiers of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but Mr. Dignity!" But I'm an unemployed, semi-professional smartass so what do I know? :-)

[mittelbar.livejournal.com]

DON'T MAKE ME LAUGH AT YOUR PAIN, dammit.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

I win!!

[phantom_wolfboy]

For me, whenever the weather changes it's "Hey! You have a metal spike right through your brain!"

Fortunately, I don't, really. It can just feel like that.