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Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “strain.” Use it any way you’d like. Enjoy!
Here’s the rules from Linda Hill:
1. Your post must be stream of consciousness writing, meaning no editing (typos can be fixed), and minimal planning on what you’re going to write.
2. Your post can be as long or as short as you want it to be. One sentence – one thousand words. Fact, fiction, poetry – it doesn’t matter. Just let the words carry you along until you’re ready to stop.
3. I will post the prompt here on my blog every Friday, along with a reminder for you to join in. The prompt will be one random thing, but it will not be a subject. For instance, I will not say “Write about dogs”; the prompt will be more like, “Make your first sentence a question,” “Begin with the word ‘The,’” or will simply be a single word to get you started.
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I think I have strained something in my back plus my normal aches and pains. I can’t believe how much pain I am in right now. The percosets aren’t helping. This has been going on for at least three weeks or more. I haven’t been to visit my dad at the nursing home and I feel bad, but the trip to see him is so long that I can’t do it. I have a long walk out of my apartment to the elevators, down them and then across the building, out the door and across the lot to my car. Once there I have a long parking lot to walk across to the lobby of the building. Then down a long wing to their elevators and the down 2-3 long wings to his section. It does me in when I am not in intense pain and I am out of it for a day or two. Right now I am already out of it so I am afraid to even try it and that is with constant stopping to sit. My dad says he understands and it’s ok. I believe him. He really worries about me so he would be upset if I came and it hurt me.
Last month my doctor took me down one pain pill per day. I was in intense pain from that and maybe I just haven’t gotten back to the full dosage of 4 pills of days. I just don’t know. This is month two of severe pain. I just don’t know what to do. Oh, and she also put me on Topamax and not sure why she did that. I ran it by my psychiatrist because I run all those types of medications by her. She doesn’t know why she would have prescribed it but doesn’t foresee a problem.
I just looked up Topamax. I am not sure what it has to do with pain issues other than migraines. I do have them occasionally though so maybe it may help, it is a very low dose. I liked the weight loss side-effect. That would be great as I am gaining weight ever since I went on insulin. I am super tired. I just fall asleep sitting in my chair writing. Not good. Can affect my Bipolar Moods which is good since my Bipolar moods are not completely under control. But like I said the dose is really small. Most adults take 200 mg twice a day. I take 25 mg once or twice a day. The top dose would be 4 times a day. Not much. I don’t know. It could cause pain if it was kidney stones, but it doesn’t say it causes them just that there could be pain if you had them. Have to keep an eye on it.
Tessa –
Advocate for mental health and invisible illnesses, also a devout Christian
Author – http://www.finallyawriter.com (this blog contains my old work mostly although occasionally I do add something new here), new work is mainly on this blog http://www.tessacandoit.com
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