3.5 Years and Counting…
It’s almost 4 years since K was diagnosed a chronic pain problem. And it’s come back — yet again — with a vengeance. Had we known, in 2009, that this would still be happening in 2013, I’m not sure what we would have done.
For the past 4 weeks, he’s been maxed out on pain meds and still unable to even move around the house most days without support. Three times, we’ve all worked hard (K included) to try & get him back into school — to no avail. Each time, he can only manage about 2 hours before the pain stops him from being able to concentrate or even take in what a teacher is saying. He is so exhausted trying to cope with the daily pain that he’s sleeping 12 — 13 hours a night and yet still doesn’t have the energy to walk very far.
Currently, the pain levels he has to deal with would floor the average, unprepared, adult.
Fecking VirginMedia!
Get the sense that I’m just ever so slightly annoyed? Last Friday morning, our ISP — in their infinite wisdom — decided to carry out a little unplanned “maintenance” which involved disconnecting everything without warning. TV, phone, broadband — the lot. OK — so we were cool with that once we’d tried contacting them and got the “We’re doing some maintenance” message (or the “We are trying to fix a fault in your area” message — it seems to have been pot luck as to which “reason” you were given). We were even really chilled out when we still didn’t…
