I ran across this artistic presentation on Friday.
I didn't stick around to see its completion
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If you happen to be my mother, then you noticed that I didn't post on Friday. I wasn't being lazy, or basking in the glorious amount of sunlight that Philadelphia had that day. No, I was having bones forcibly extracted from my skull because they failed to know their place (in my mouth). These so called "
wisdom teeth" forced me to miss a day's worth of work, writing, and cleaning and put me through a substantial amount of discomfort and annoyance. The chemicals that I was pumped full for the early morning procedure lasted until around noon, at which time the gang of four started to beat on my nerve endings until the experience became too unbearable to sleep through. I rolled over and grabbed
Arthas: Rise of the Lich King. I made it through two pages before I returned to kicking my legs in frustration.
I've always been intrigued by the
studies showing that
video games help hospital patients (and everyone else) deal with pain and the stress of their illnesses, such as transfusions or chemotherapy. With that in mind, and a little coaxing from my girlfriend, I fired up the computer and dove into Azeroth with reckless abandon. One, two, three, a half dozen hours passed me by as I continued to crush heroic after heroic. I wouldn't claim that the pain had vanished, I still felt it, but with my brain utterly distracted by DPS maximization, group creation, fishing, or dailies, it was pushed by the wayside. Thanks to my brain's limited capacity, the synapses continued to fire, but no one was home to receive delivery.
No, it wasn't just my Wolverine-like healing abilities taking over. I didn't even realize the positive effects of my "self medication" until the next morning where I awoke in agony, despite that fact that I went to bed feeling relatively well. I broke down and took the prescribed pain medication before I went back to my previous method of recovery. Once again, the hours passed and I was able to ignore the hardcore drugs in favor of
GTA: Chinatown Wars,
Demigod and a ton more of World of Warcraft.
In an odd twist, the pain actually helped Solidsamm substantially. During the course of the hazy weekend he bagged close to twenty achievements, hundreds of gold, leveled his fishing and cooking, participated in some new (to him) heroics, gained thousands of
Kirin Tor rep, downed
Kel'Thuzad for the first time and lost a collected 5 rolls on needed rogue loot. The little gnome managed all of this will keeping me, his driver, off the hard medication. Quite a weekend.
The pain still remains as of today, but it is tolerable so long as I don't try to chew, speak on the phone long, laugh loudly or yawn. Perhaps I am milking it a bit. Hey, when else in your life do you get a perfectly reasonable excuse to drink
milkshakes 3-4 times a day? Now I know what I will be doing if I ever break a bone. I feel a twang of pain...back to Azeroth.
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