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Category Archives: Spasms
A Guessing Game
My legs are talking again. I can feel them throbbing with the want to scream their lungs out. If legs had lungs that is. Their conversation is particularly loud today as I make my way to work. My left leg … Continue reading
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A Broken Connection
I like to think that my legs are talking. While writing the other day, I remembered the old story my mother told me: That my brain was like a hub where all the telephone operators were. All the veins and … Continue reading
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Mirror Me
I’ve been looking at myself in the mirror a lot lately. I wonder, however briefly, how someone can love someone that looks like I do; knobby knees and legs that are too long. Muscles that spasm and shock the body, … Continue reading
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Beautiful Skin
Today my legs are made of stone. I can feel them dragging. They are heavier than usual and I wonder how I could not have noticed before. I touch my calf muscles and there is no give there, there is … Continue reading
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The Counting Stone
The Elephant Man has returned. I got a ride home from work last night. From Elgin Street, I walked to Confederation Park. I knew the spasms were coming; I felt them riding in my friends car, a subtle throb that … Continue reading
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Snake In My Path
I’ve come to think of pain as a snake. My shoulder is still sore, still spasming, still convulsing under my skin. It beats as if a heart rests there, as if it is something alive. Which, in a way, it … Continue reading
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The Language of Pain
The Twin is back. I knew he would not be able to stay away for long, that his quietness would eventually end. I did not expect it to be quite so painful. I have had trouble walking all weekend. Almost … Continue reading
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Marshmellow Fire
The pain has moved. Today it is my legs that are suffering. Specifically, my right leg. Every step I take with it sends a hot jab of pain up my calves, spreading from my ankle to my leg joint at … Continue reading
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Bundle of Nerves
I woke a few minutes before my alarm clock this morning. As I lay there, contemplating getting up and facing the day, I felt a tremor. At first, I thought it was an earth quake; it certainly felt like one. … Continue reading
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An Unwanted Lover
I woke this morning with sharp pains in my legs. The clock by our bed read 3:30AM. For a moment, I wondered what had woken me. Then I felt it; that hot, jabbing pain that crawled up my legs like … Continue reading
Two Steps at a Time 