2018-10-14

Ouch (no food here, go somewhere else)

Situations for a really peculiar DnD session - how characters could get hurt:
A bit over a month of no-breaks overwork combined with chronic autoimmune disease leads to eyes feeling like they are mildly on fire. Using the recommended eye-medicine makes it feel like half-molten sand was being poured into your eyeballs and you can't see a thing for 10 minutes every time.
With no apparent reason heel of the left foot starts hurting so bad that it is impossible to lie on your back with it resting on the ground, because it just hurts so much touching the surface. Putting any weight on it while walking is out of the question, of course, leading to constant one-leg-tiptoeing causing all sorts of cramps in the calf.
You are so sleepy and zombified by lectures that after two hours and to survive the next two, you decide to get the stagnant blood flowing again by practicing some handstands in the back of the classroom... only one landing goes a bit off and you strain the big and middle toes on the right foot. Meaning you can only support weigth on the heel of that foot now - more calf cramps, just in the opposite direction of the other foot.
Next all the rest of the toes of the right foot become excruciating due to the small toe having been stepped on by numerous horses in the past leaving it crooked + having to keep the rest of the toes from taking any weigth + wearing slightly unfriendly shoe for an entire day of moving around.
Despite those you decide to go out for the evening, because it has been about half a year since you last had the opportunity to dance and you're on the verge of losing it. And alcohol numbs, and friends distract, right. Except that this endeavour is cut short when huge drunk Australian smashes into your back at full swing, elbow first - impact is enough to drop you, screaming. Result is some skin off the back with excruciatingly painful tissues around the impact point but also a severe cramp in the deep muscles, that over the course of a day makes all the rest of the back and neck cramp up and cause hideous pain.
Throughout all this you've had bad headaches from the stress and from the joy of being female. Not to mention the excruciating-at-every-move breasts and pains from being bloated for days on end. Then, of course, the actual period with the nice cramps and stabbed-with-knives-from-the-inside start.
In addition to those, looking where to place a flower pot you slam head-first into the corner of a booksehelf. The old problems in wrist and thumb have been acting up for weeks, leaving right hand at about 50% useability.. and in pain, naturally. A few cuts, hitting yourself on stuff to gain bruises, an attack by a specially vicious mosquito leaving legs splotchy, throat in pain from what you are very-very much hoping is not the start of a cold/flu, taking a sip of tea to combat that and burning your tounge terribly.
Etc.

What IS the probability of having to tolerate all that within a period of three days? Well, then again, it's only physical pain - easy-peasy.

Cheers,
Hedi

Edit: yes, the throat pain did develop into a full-blown cold with muscle pains, fever, burning eyes, head full-of-wool, runny AND stuffed (at the same time, go figure) nose, coughing and feeling like a cat were tryng to scratch its way out of my chest.
Well, ability to learn from experience is still present - as soon as the trouble with throat started, I knew to march straight into a drugstore and get... like... everything. Followed by a raid on a foodstore to stock up on enough to last for a few weeks if need be. Now all I need to do is manage to cook, make tea, eat and convince self that what heals in the end, is one's own immune system, not whether there is anyone to take care of you. Good thing I've had enough practice to be a pro by now...