Pain in the....toe

Most of you who know me, have heard that I had an accident on vacation that caused me to ruin my big toe's nail. It was too much pressure and giving me so much pain, so the other day I removed it myself. I'm happy to report that a couple days later, I'm sitting here having my morning shake able to say with complete joy that it is no longer hurting!

All this has me thinking...I do not do well with pain. I mean, I know most of us would say that, but I'm completely beside myself in my agony and irritated that I have to deal with the momentary discomfort. I was feeling like this when I read one of the blogs I keep tabs on--the nie nie dialogues. If you don't know about it, you should and you should read it. Stephanie Nielson (hence Nie Nie) and her hubby were in a plane crash last year and she was burned on most of her body. Every day she is trying to make a recovery dealing with chronic pain as they do skin grafts on her neck, face, pretty much everywhere. And this particular day when I was irritated about my toe, she had just had a skin graft taking her thigh skin and putting it on her neck so she could rotate her neck more. Yeowch. I'm thinking of that type of pain and cringing. But she is happy to watch her girls sun themselves on the trampoline or giggles when the youngest poops on the door mat outside and she lives through their laughter and I realized....I'm a complete idiot. I have so much to be thankful for and need to focus on that rather than my momentary discomfort...whatever it may be at the time.