Lost afternoons and such.

Those who examine the Mankoski pain scale will note that level 10 is simply "unconsciousness." The difficulty with defining something like this is, of course, that one is unconscious. It is not really possible to distinguish between falling into blessed sleep from your meds when you are marching through Mankoski #9, and losing consciousness due to pain. You are out like a light and not taking notes. At any rate, that's what I did with my afternoon.

Either way, you pay for your relief with the notorious pain hangover. For those who haven't been around here before, or experienced it, this is what it says it is. After you have been shaken around like a puppy toy by whatever your chronic pain is, and you fall asleep/pass out, when you wake up you feel exactly like you have a hangover without having had the pleasure (however dubious) of having been drunk. That's what I'm doing with my evening.