When I think about pain

I've been thinking a lot about pain the last couple of weeks, mainly because I've got a lot of it. (Please note, this is not a desperate plea for sympathy or solicitation for advice on treatment–I really *have* been thinking about this.)

I'm experiencing a recurrence of the leg pain I had back in 2003 when I herniated a disc in my lower back (longtime readers may recall I chronicled that experience on an earlier blog that is thankfully no longer online because, hell, I was wallowing in...