Pain

I was directed to this graphic by a comment elsewhere, and I was struck by how useless the 1-10 scale is in general, and by how odd the "Activity tolerance scale" is. When Linnea was a baby I was frequently in too much pain to move, for large parts of many days, and... that was just how life was. We were much more worried by Rob's job being on the rocks. He'd go to work leaving me lying on the floor with the phone in arms reach and the baby on the floor beside me.

That pain was about a 6 or 7 on my personal 1-10 scale.

Nowadays, I am ALWAYS in pain to a level that interferes with tasks. Getting up in the morning, walking any distance, standing for any length of time, using the loo. I have no idea whether pain or lack of sleep is what affects my concentration but something does.

The level of pain I accept as normal is really, really messed up.