The Pain Game

A little over two years ago, I had to stop biking. My hypermobile joints were starting to bother me, the numbness and tingling in my left thigh was spreading, and I was so fatigued from work that I had to take a mandatory nap every day. I’m still trying to figure out the thread that ties everything together, and I’ve seen too my doctors and specialists in the past few years to count, even at the Mayo Clinic. What helps the most with my pain is meditation and a positive additude about my life and my future, as cheesy as that may sound. Having the support of family and friends has been critical, as well as therapy for pain management. Finding hobbies that allow me to decompress has been vital as well, and writing and rhyming does the job to put me in my happy place. 

There's something I need to explain

I have a form of chronic pain

Mainly in afternoons

I have finite spoons
Requiring that I rest my brain

Ways in which the Lateral Femoral Cutaneous Nerve can be compressed, known as Meralgia Paresthetica. 

Hello again!

Well hello! It's been a while. A long while. Sorry about that. I've been writing limericks and poems for all these years, but most of them have been going up on my Instagram. You can follow me and my cats there: @meshugah_rachel - feel free to give me a follow and drop me a DM!

Life updates: I'm currently single, I still live in uptown (but technically I live in Whittier, which is a fitting title for me I suppose lol), I adopted a second cat named Yentl, and I work as a certified peer specialist at a non-profit.

I suppose I'll restart this blog with a post about Mother's Day, since that is the most recent landmark/holiday we celebrated. I went to brunch with my family at Smack Shack and it was a delicious meal. I gifted my mom a bottle of orange liqueur from Norseman for her to enjoy, and wrote her a fitting limerick to match:

If you feel like you’re in a small funk
And your patience has already shrunk

On this Mother’s Day

Let your stress go away
By drinking your gift ‘til you’re drunk!