I haven't had a narcotic pain med since the surgery in 1990 and that was the day of the surgery, while I was hospitalized. Don't get me wrong, pain meds are a God-send. Over my 42 year span of practicing dentistry, I probably prescribed well over 100,000 narcotic meds, so it certainly is not that I don't value pain control. I'm just one of those strange people that doesn't like to take medicines. Thus I never even consider most pain meds. I occasionally will take Advil but even that is rare. I can take the pain, heck, after four decades I just expect it, but either the pain has gotten worse or getting old made me less tolerant. I am hopeful as well as optimistic that the fusion will lessen the pain, improving my life. I have a lot left to do before I am called home.
Kelli, you need all the rain you can get. Y'all have a lot of catching up to do.
