Despite the physical fatigue in which I
am feeling, I am unable to sleep due to a flurry of incessant
thoughts. These anxiety driven thoughts, vile in nature, are enough
to keep me awake for hours on end. There are quite a lot of things
that scare me about the future, if I am being rather honest.
Tonight was a particularly bad pain
night, or perhaps that is the understatement of the year. My lower
leg hurt so incredibly bad that I felt as though I was going to
completely lose all sanity in which I had ever possessed – I want
to feel as though I am free, and yet the physical constraints of
Klippel can leave me feeling as though I will be trapped for
eternity. Over the past several years, I have observed that as the
warmer weather approaches (I live in New England), the pain in my
lower left leg goes awry. The pain is so incredibly wretched that I
am unable to think of anything else, except how to possibly quell it.
Tonight, unable to tolerate the pain any longer, I pulled out my
compression pump for the first time in a long while and let it works
it's magic for a couple of hours.
Below is a picture of it – while in
use – from earlier this evening.
Whenever I first start it up, it hurts
so incredibly bad for a couple of minutes. That, from what I know, is
due to the amount of fluid that is stuck in there (which, at the
beginning of the process, is at it's peak). However, after a couple
of minutes it feels as though the device is gently massaging the
fluid up my leg and the pain from the pump has halted.
Do you guys use compression machines of
this nature? Do you find them to be as helpful as I do? - Arianna
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