Downs and Ups
Posted By Russ Emerson on September 15, 2009 at 3:31 pm
Most days, in those moments between waking up and getting out of bed, I realize that’s as good as I’m going to feel all day. I’m beginning to get used to my legs always hurting.* I don’t like it, but that’s just the way it is.
Like everyone else, I have good days and bad days. Most people, if they felt like I do on a good day, would (perhaps justifiably) complain of feeling poorly. My bad days would send many to their doctors.
Sometimes, though, I have a really good day. A day when my legs feel almost normal, when I can walk almost normally. A day like, well, today.
Which is kind of surprising, really, considering how short I am on sleep so far this week.
Meh… I’ll take the good, however it comes.
* By “hurting” I don’t really mean that I’m in pain all the time — though that is the case all too often. The real issue is neuropathy, which is pretty hard to describe. The closest I can come is “simultaneously burning and freezing, with constant pins-and-needles.”
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