a fly walks into a bar..

[stargazer61]

..and says 'excuse me, is this stool taken?'

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That's all i can manage, the dental work has knocked me writhing on my back...

i love the title of this book (i've not read it):

Karen Duffy's Backbone: Living with Chronic Pain Without Turning into One.

...it's at the top of my Goodreads 'to-read' list, To be fair i could probably write my own...if i had a team of people to do it for me!

Anyone who has managed to do anything today, yay! This post is pretty much the biggest achievement of the day and i'm sure y'all know the feeling of trying to take one day at a time but sometimes a month's days have arrived in the night and you can barely stand with the weight of them...yeah, that's me since the dentist. i keep saying to myself, any normal person having their mouth open for over an hour and a half being drilled would be in pain, and i have tmj, chronic pain, osteoarthritis and fibromyalgia - i am coping with a lot, it's ok i've been knocked stupid with pain, and the simplest task has me weeping, i'm ok...even is smiling hurts, i'm gonna do it anyway and watch something that makes me laugh on tv and then disappear into one of the great books by my bed so that it's not 24/7 pain, there's other stuff too! I'm doing my best and refuse to listen to that panicked voice squawking reasons i have to do something! x

[Treewade]

You are supper strong the thought of the tentist going back in my mouth scared me he took a tooth over six months ago and bruised all my face doing it n I’m still getting pain not often now but after a few weeks that should have stopped I cancelled rest of my treatment so I think your super star hun xxxxxxxx

[stargazer61 in reply to Treewade]

aw thanks, i traumatize him almost as much, and brave as i try to be, all i can think is to cancel the rest of mine!!think of how bad it would have been in the past - one 'cure' for toothache was stuffing in a dead mouse - i have no words!!!!

[Treewade in reply to stargazer61]

Dead mouse yuk i cant imagine how bad it was before dentist and wonder if they were the first health care professionals tooth ache has to be the worst ever pain xxxxx