It was probably last Wednesday when the events that took place in the middle of the night made me think of book for the first time in about 20 years:
This book had just come out and I was lent a copy of it to read. I was most interested in reading it and waited until Sean was asleep in his crib. This was the first time that I can remember foregoing an entire night of sleep to finish reading a book from cover to cover. I remember seeing the morning sun stream in through the window and I was able to get maybe an hour of sleep before Sean woke up and tended to his needs.
I thought of this book specifically because I clearly remembered a character in it. The details were a little bit fuzzy but I googled: “Albino priest who hurts himself in The da Vinci Code” and then it all came back to me! The character I was talking about was named Silas and he was a priest. He was part of a cultish sect surrounding the Catholic Church. But let me explain the events of last Wednesday night for you to understand why I thought of this character:
It was probably 3 or 4 in the morning and I was awakened from a sound sleep by the feeling of a screwdriver or large needle being driven into my right thigh. Obviously, I screamed and woke my Mom and I asked her to cut my sweatpants off because some thing hurt my leg. Needless to say, my Mom did NOT cut my pants off but we did not find anything on my leg when she took them off. I thought that that was strange because my thigh was hurting so badly even when I woke up in the late morning.
It continued to hurt and it still hurts today, almost one week later. But it no longer feels like a screwdriver or a large needle being shoved into my thigh straight to the bone. Now, it feels like there is a chain around my right thigh, similar to Silas‘s chain. I remember the description when I read the book and it sounded awful and I searched YouTube to see if there was a video representation that showed how it was described in the book.
Oh, there IS one! I will NOT put it on my blog though! I didn’t even watch the whole scene before turning my phone off. It was really gross! But that’s how it feels for me! I feel like there is barbed wire around my right thigh and it is cutting into my skin. At first, I thought it was my compression sock cutting into my skin but there is nothing there! It’s just nerve pain that I will have to deal with! OF COURSE it would be in my “Poop leg!”
I was able to counteract some of the pain with pain medication but I really want to NOT depend on medication to ride this nerve pain out! I posted a meme on Facebook about nerve pain and I talked about it, “NOT being the half of it” because it’s really NOT! It sucks that you can’t see it but I feel like Silas and my “Poop leg” is REALLY hurting!!!
