Saturday, February 26, 2011

Time

Time.

Time x pain = ?

After 11 weeks of pain I am becoming desperate.

Imagine if you will, someone stuck a needle in your leg and left it there. When you move, it hurts. Sometimes it hurts even if you don't move.

Now multiply that by 10. Imagine you have 10 needles in your leg, and four of them are 5mm thick. They all hurt like the first one.

Now imagine that the thinner of those pins all have inflamed boils or spots on them, and that they are incredibly sensitive. Any contact is very sore.

Now put a vice on your leg and clamp it so tight the you can feel the bone stress.

Finally add a pain that you will not know unless you've broken a bone. It's a sharp fiery sort of pain deep in your leg. You can't quite work out where it is located. It pulses with your heartbeat. It is strong enough to make you wince every now and again.

When the pain is at its worst you can't think. You just sit and stare, blankly unaware of things going on or what people are saying to you,

Now imagine that pain being present to varying degrees, 24 hours a day, every day for 11 weeks.