Thigh Injury Five Weeks Later
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I pretty much surmised from reading that I had injured both the hamstrings (located in back) as well as the quadriceps (located in front) and the idea of a pain starting a couple of days into the experience and progressing in the manner this did to be as fear inducing as it gets.
There was a time when I thought I wasn't going to make it. The intractable pain cripped me and left me unable to do anything other than sit or lie and moan.
Over the counter medications were of limited value during the course of this injury. I ended up going to my primary care provider some six months prior to my scheduled appointment to try to get some relief.
She really brought out the big guns too. The pain killer was a highly effective opioid and today was the first day in the treatment plan that I didn't require it upon arising.
While pain remains in the thigh it is the character and intensity of that pain which has improved vastly to the point that I actually think I'm going to make it.
Suffice it to say that I'm going to attempt to keep my ever advancing age in mind when I start getting sloppy sitting and arising from an inadequate chair.
This experience was the stuff of euthanasia. I questioned my will to live and ability to endure for pretty much the first time in my experiential world inventory. Were it not for the effective pain relief afforded to me by my primary care provider I might not be here right now.
I am unlikely to ever ridicule someone pursing pain relief ever again as I have done on occasion in the past.