2013/08/30

TJH: Inspire – Cool Relief From a Hot Day

Da Goddess @ 04:40

As I type this (last night since this isn’t posting til morning), it’s almost 9pm and still over 90 degrees. The air is dead. No breeze. King Arthur is recovering from oral surgery, in pain, not eating, and I feel horrible because there’s nothing I can do to ease his pain.

My new doctor is wonderful. The insurance company: not so much. They still insist on making it difficult for me to fill my meds. As well, I’ll be needing to see a pain management doctor and I’m pretty certain insurance will raise a fuss about that. So I spend days hoping and praying my meds come through soon and I can get back on the pain management path that has become a rather good “habit”. Yes, I said habit. It sounds horrible, as if I have a drug habit, but what I really mean is that it’s taken me years to develop a routine and a regimen that requires me to change certain patterns in life so that I can function. By making these changes, I integrate all the new things I need to do into my life…I make them new habits. Thinking of pain management as less a chore and more “healthy habit”, it’s easier for me to live with the accommodations necessary to do what I need to do. Pain habits. Pain relief habits. It’s just how life is anymore.

King Arthur is having to make all sorts of adjustments to life because of this. And then we throw in his surgery and post-op pain. Fun times.

Between his pain and mine, we’re just a couple bumps on our respective logs.

While it’s true that SoCal isn’t as hot as Vegas in August, it’s still uncomfortable and keeping us indoors for the bulk of the day. At some point today, we’ll need to go out and pick up his prescriptions, and — hopefully — mine as well. With any luck, it’ll have cooled down some.

Regardless, these little flowers made me feel cooler just looking at them.

Cool and a nice break

3 Comments

  1. It finally rained here, I got an inch yesterday. That cooled it off slightly, but didn’t do anything for the humidity. It’s funny, the Evergreen State Fair is going on right now and I usually associate that with there starting to be a little nip in the air in the early mornings. This year, not so much!

    Comment by Jan — 2013/08/30 @ 06:43

  2. They are very cooling! Maybe it’s the blue!

    Hope you both get your meds and feel better!!!

    {{HUG}}

    Comment by pam — 2013/08/30 @ 07:50

  3. We’ve had rain nearby…but it’s caused flooding and none of it has hit where we might benefit from it.

    Comment by Da Goddess — 2013/08/30 @ 12:23

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