Loose Ligaments

It has been a while, mostly because I am busy with life, but also because I’m pretty sure that AI now eats my blog and that business can just fuck right off so…anyway… Today, I am thinking about chronic illness and pain. I’m sitting in the parking lot of work, waiting to go in, and contemplating the fact that I don’t want to. Not because I don’t want to go to work; I actually have a very strong work ethic that at times has burned me out over the years. I have to be very careful not overdo myself, for both mental and physical reasons. It is the physical reasons I’m thinking of today, as I sit here with a mild stomach ache and a terrible pain in my right leg. The pain started a couple of months ago, and exists because I have a loose ligament in my spine, apparently. This is what my doctor told me. He prescribed me a medication that I refused, but he insisted, and has helped. Fortunately, I am not experiencing any of the side effects that I was worried about, but I’m not experiencing…