As you can see from my pic above, on Friday I had my Covid vaccine — the Janssen version, aka One-and-Done. Mr. Brillig got his first Pfizer dose a few hours later, so on April 23rd and May 14th, respectively, we can go HUG *PEOPLE WE DON’T LIVE WITH (*Providing they both want to be hugged, and are also at least two weeks post immunization. Don’t just go hug people. That wasn’t cool before and still isn’t).
My ability to hug, however, will be dependent on the physical therapy I started today because nobody wants to hug then watch me grimace in pain. Long story short, my nice strong backside muscles are tired of doing all the work when my abs and other core muscles are slacking off, so they’re seizing and squeezing around my sciatic nerve as a direct protest action.
I mentioned this morning on social media “I wondered if I really needed to see a Physical Therapist, Then she had me do some tiny trivial motion & all doubts were erased. It was a 7 on the hyperbole-and-a-half scale. Hi, Jesus!” and then realized there might be people who don’t know that pain scale. If you’re one of those people, let me enlighten you: Way back in 2010, the utterly wonderful Allie made the following post on her blog: Boyfriend Doesn't Have Ebola. Probably. In it, she created a Rate-Your-Pain Scale that *actually made sense* instead of those stupid emoji-faces. I don’t have rights to the images so you MUST go see her post if you haven’t seen it before, then come back.
[Side note: rereading her post, I see “Anyway, the doctor wanted to make sure that Boyfriend didn't have SARS or stomach AIDS or something” and dayyum does this take on a whole new feel a decade later!]
This post changed my life, because suddenly I had a way to describe pain using concepts people understood. When I say “my pain is not fucking around”, folks know what I mean. It even cuts down on people going directly to DEFCON10 on the 1-10 scale, because does anyone truly know what “I am actively being mauled by a bear” FEELS LIKE?!
A friend responded sharing her favorite pain scale, which involves works of art. For the record, depending on whether I move wrong after what the sadist masquerading as a physical therapist did to me today I am either a Da Vinci or a Picasso.
Do YOU have a favorite scale when you have to describe how you feel? Please share it in the comments, because when we can say I’m a frowny-face Hyperboleandahalf six Rembrandt, isn’t that WAY clearer?
Carefully and with a pain level of zero, please hop across the story break and join me for tonight’s trio of Top Comments, Mojo and Pictures!
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From Besame:
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From Otteray Scribe:
In the story by GShaw about today's school shooting in Knoxville, ProfPupdog leaves a comment that sums up the current state of affairs in gun violence.
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