Ow.. #@#%^ing OWWW !

There are not too many things in all this that actually hurt.  I get sore, nauseous, dizzy, rashes, itchy, hot, cold, etc.  Sometimes I have been so sick that it would be hard to keep going if I didn't have so much to keep going for.  That is sick.

But actual pain is not common.

Today I got a full on, pillow biting dose of it.  The biopsy today was hands down the worst of the 10? I have had so far.  The pain was mostly from the extraction of the aspirate (goo).  It was down the entire leg and it was bad.  I lost control of the verbal locks and the pillow got quite a cuss smackdown.  That is with an Adavan and Morphine.

Normally I am all fine by the end of the day, but about 12 hours after the event, I can still barely walk, and it still is sore all the way down the leg.

The lumbar puncture later in the day was a walk in the park in comparison.

If men gave birth, and it hurt anything like I just experienced, everyone would be an only child.  No miracle of birth crap would bring you back for a second go round.  It would be straight off for the vasectomy right after the delivery.

In again tomorrow for a meeting with Dr. Nevil where he will probably be trying to bum me out with the possible risks complications for the upcoming transplant on the 28th.

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Dude said…
They did, but it only works on the tissue the needle goes through, not the bones.
10/14/2010 1:08 PM
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