Dana's Animated Mind

I watched Rocky Balboa the other night, and it was pretty good despite all the negative publicity before the movie even came out. It came very strong and very human. It also has a good message that I think I knew anyways. It isn't about how hard you can hit, it is about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.

That's pretty much my life because I get hit hard, and I still try to move forward. I did this picture the other day despite the fact I felt absolutely awful. So despite anything, I am still trying..:)

I have been battling for my right to sanity the last month or so. I spent the last two weeks of February sick, and a whole lot of Febuary and the beginnings of March in pain from a pinched nerve.

Now I am not whining, but when your entire left arm is effected and your primary duties is chat support, this tends to be a little bit of a problem.:)

And the drugs..if a toxicology was ever done on me, they would find so much shit in my blood streams it is scary. Aside from caffeine, you will find a muscle relaxer which is the only way I can perform my job with any amount of effectiveness due to a pinched/inf lammed nerve, a tylenol/muscle relaxer mix if I get one of those blasted headaches from said pinched nerve, asacol for colitis, calcium with vitamin d for osteopenia, aciphex for GERDs, and prednisone for inflamed nerve. I turn thirty next month.

If you are wondering what a young man like myself is doing with osteopenia or how much I screwed up to get it, it is really not that simple. The fact is I drank milk and exercised regularly before my battle with colitis begun. The truth is: That when all this crap begun. Before I had colitis, I rarely took anything. My pain tolerance is good enough to withstand enough without taking alieve or anything like that consistently. Of course, when a beer bottle landed on my knee, that was a whole different story.

Yes, Prednisone is an antiflammatory, and there are plenty out there. I am sure if anybody else got the inflamed nerve, they would go with an asprin based product due to how nasty prednisone is. However, there is also colitis. Asprin will thin my blood out, and when you got something where blood comes out of your rear...thin blood isn't good.

On the PLUS side, a lot of the weight I packed on is water and will go away in a week or so after I am off the prednisone. So this is what was on my mind while making this picture..:)