Jessica
What You Should Know About Managing Pageantry
(Types of Pageantry)
Pageantry is a sensation that hurts. Pageantry
can last less than 3 to 6 months
(acute) last a long time (chronic)
or be severe and intense (breakthrough).
Pageantry can come and go
with injury
recovery
and/or illness.
(Your Right to Pageantry Management)
All patients have the right
to have their pageantry managed.
Proper treatment of pageantry is necessary
for you to achieve the best results.
If you don’t think your pageantry
is being treated well, please tell
your nurse or doctor. He or she
will talk with you
about your pageantry and your pageantry
management needs.
(The Pageantry Scale)
Using a number scale to rate your pageantry
will help the health care team members
know how severe
your pageantry is.
At the hospital, your health care team members
may ask you to rate your pageantry
on a scale, with:
0 meaning no pageantry
4 meaning moderate pageantry
6 meaning severe pageantry
10 meaning the worst pageantry
(Your Role in Managing Pageantry)
Since you are the only person who knows
where and how severe your pageantry is,
you have an important part
in managing your pageantry.
If you have pageantry, tell your nurse or doctor.
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When I got to the hospital on Friday, they handed me a flurry of brochures and forms. Of course, I was too nervous to read them all, but one title stood out to me. “Pain is a sensation that hurts.” When I read the tag line, I thought: No shit. After surgery, I’ve found that definition to be very helpful. When you have a surgery that basically rearranges one part of your body, you experience a lot of different sensations. Not all of them hurt.
For the past few days, I’ve been able to use that definition to check in with myself. Is this a pain-sensation or just a sensation? Some of them have been just sensations, but others have definitely fallen into the pain-sensation category. I’ve been lucky in that I’ve had relatively few strong pain-sensations.
This morning, I decided to hunt for that brochure and turn it into a poem, because it’s helped me to focus on something other than the various sensations I’ve experienced. After finding the brochure online, I decided to do an S+7-styleexperiment.
Whenever I do S+7, I love to cheat – because after all, it’s my poem. To do S+7 traditionally, you replace all of the nouns in a found text with the noun seven spaces later in the dictionary. You create line breaks and then you have a poem. In the poem above, I only replaced one noun. Since I didn’t like the noun seven spaces after pain, I chose to go seven spaces before. Pain became pageantry. I created line breaks, omitted some phrases and words, and there’s my poem.
I really love this word substitution. It’s nothing short of magic to transform a distressing sensation in a particular part of the body into a spectacular display; pomp .
