Tagged: medications

A meme with white text on a black background reading: Doctor: 'Are you feeling any pain?' Me: 'Only the normal amount.' Doctor: 'The normal amount is zero.' Me: — followed by a wide-eyed penguin from Madagascar staring in baffled silence.

Day 5Early Recovery

Easy

Day 5. Time for a check-in. But first, a reminder of why this journal exists at all. Yes, it's an outlet for me to process everything I'm going through. But…

Pain 2/10 NWB early-recovery · post-op · pain-management

A Finding Nemo meme: Dory, the wide-eyed blue tang fish, grins against a blue underwater background. Bold white text reads 'SLEEP. SLEEP.' across the top and 'MUST GET SLEEP.' across the bottom.

Day 3Early Recovery

Mr. Sandman

Check-in time: we're right about at the 72-hour mark, and honestly? What a chill three days it's been. Mostly. For starters, the extended-release OxyContin has…

Pain 3/10 NWB early-recovery · post-op · medications

The Most Interesting Man in the World meme: a distinguished bearded man in a suit sits at a table. Top text reads 'I don't always roll a joint,' bottom text reads 'but when I do, it's my ankle.'

Day 2Early Recovery

Feeling Good

Just a quick check-in. I'm closing in on 48 hours post-op and I have virtually no pain. I honestly can't tell whether I'm happy or really nervous, wondering if…

Pain 3/10 NWB early-recovery · post-op · peptides

A lolcat meme: a small grey-and-white kitten sits with its right front leg wrapped in a white bandage. White text reads 'My plan to dominate the world has been put on hold for *now*.'

Day 1Early Recovery

I Wanna Be Sedated

Post-op update time. First, the bad news: I did not get the continuous no-no-nerve juice machine I'd campaigned so hard for. Boooo. Instead they sent me home…

Pain 4/10 NWB early-recovery · post-op · medications

A white coffee mug with a black handle and black interior. The text reads 'I START WORKING WHEN MY' above an OxyContin 80mg pharmaceutical label graphic, then 'STARTS WORKING' below.

Pre-op · 5d to surgeryPre-op

Comfortably Numb

Let's talk about pain. Specifically, let's talk about the plan to outsmart it, because last time pain and I had a very bad weekend together. Rewind to the left…

FWB pre-op · medications · pain-science

Gollum from The Lord of the Rings, gaunt and gray-skinned, crouched on mossy rock in a dark cave, cradling and gazing longingly at a bottle of Advil the way he covets the One Ring.

Pre-op · 12d to surgeryPre-op

My Precious

Every runner has a Precious. This is mine. I've been leaning on Advil like a crutch since the ankle went. But if I'm being honest, I was leaning on it loooong…

FWB pre-op · medications · nsaids