This post might bother sensitive people, but I must. What if it can help someone some day. What if it can help me.

I tried to stop taking Tylenol this afternoon. Changing up meds. Bear with me please. The meninges. It’s a covering around your skull. My skull. Your spinal fluid swirls around in the meninges. I used to be pleasantly unaware of this constant, very efficient happening. I overdid it this afternoon AND stopped taking Tylenol. It really hurts. My head. It’s not pressure so much as a ripping sensation. Yes, there is pressure too. This hurting has caused me to contemplate the pain that others might feel. Others who are unable to speak for themselves. People in comas. Anyone really who can’t communicate the intensity of their pain. (I think I used the right their there. I’m really hurting 😢). Is there a pain meter for someone in a coma? For someone who can’t tell a doctor that the pain is an 11 on a scale of 1 – 10? I’m horizontal again and it’s easing up. So I guess if I were in a coma, I’d be okay because I’d be horizontal. But what if there are people hurting who can’t communicate that they hurt? That they need medicine. Or something?!??? This creates new questions and doubts for me. People hurting en masse? What if a pain indicator could be created? A way to measure it? Measuring it would be necessary to treat it correctly. Wouldn’t you think?

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