Pain: the universe don't give a shit

This is my low back, one week post-surgery, the little button-hole incision healing up just right.  Two things are funny about this for me: 1) that the new incision is exactly where the old scar from this surgery #1 13 years ago was, maybe they should just install a zipper; 2) that I can't wash off the X, and oh I've tried, that Dr Lavery drew on my hip before the procedure.  X marks the spot.

Funny.

What isn't funny, when I think back on it, is how much pain I was in for so long.  I wrote about pain earlier, about how I only endorse two kinds of pain -- childbirth and heartache.  All other pain is bullshit.

Physical pain teaches us nothing.

And it ain't the universe's way of telling us, or teaching us, jack-shit.

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