Motion and Medication
A short edition gratefully sponsored by gabapentin
Hullo my lovely readers
Firstly, a brief content note that there is discussion of treatment for chronic neuropathic pain in this letter, but that it doesn’t go into any significant detail.
Secondly, despite the subtitle and the selected image for this week – for absolute clarity, in case any of you have a tendency to take things literally, as I do myself, this edition is not actually sponsored by gabapentin.
That’s just yet another example of my wheely (!) great sense of humour. It is, however, made possible by it – because, over the past two nights gabapentin has given me, and by association my mother, the closest thing to a spasm-and-pain-free sleep that I’ve known in years.
That means that, in many ways, my executive functioning is also much sharper than it has been in years. My movements are (already) much more fluid as well, hence the “motion” in this letter’s title. At the same time, though, because it’s been a (long) while since I’ve started a new medication – after trialling multiple as a teenager and finding precisely none which even took the edge off – I had completely and utterly failed to take into account the wooziness which can often accompany the early days.
And, when it’s combined with jet lag from a recent flight to family in South Africa (more on that once everyone’s a little more settled), it seems it makes for a rather heady combination.
So, not only is this week’s letter much, much later than planned, it’s also not the musings on Ellen Jones’ brilliant book, Outrage, that I’ve been so eager to share. Those, all being well, will arrive this coming Wednesday.
But perhaps the extra lead-time might be an opportunity to engage with the book yourselves, before you eventually get to read my rambles about it?
In the meantime, thank you for reading – and for your continued support and patience – and love and solidarity until next week,
Jx
I can’t tell you how delighted and relieved I was to read that you and your Mother have had some restful and lengthy sleep, long may it continue and you soon feel better during the day.
This post, while not sponsored by gabapentin but somewhat made possible by the sleep it allowed you to have, was a delightful read on this stormy Sunday morning.