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Perhaps I should post some photos of my incision and its developments, but that might seem unseemly to some. I could blur out the non-public pubic parts. But, oh, so many things to worry about in these times of conspicuous disgust with guys showing off their junk online.

Anyway, I haven’t taken any pain pills since my inguinal hernia surgery three days ago even though I did have some pain. My idea was that if something I did makes something hurt than I shouldn’t do that something again. I may be dumb but I hope that I’m not so stupid that I keep doing things that hurt.

Since my surgery I have learned how to get up and sit down without any pain, I’ve learned how to get into bed and out of bed without any pain. I’ve almost learned how to avoid coughing and sneezing, and that’s a big one because those normal activities give an explosion of real pain. The pain goes away in a few seconds, but the event is so memorable I have thought about how to eliminate it. I’ve discovered that if, in fifteen seconds, I can get a menthol cough drop into my mouth, chew it and dissolve enough of it to let some juice drift over the tickle point of the cough, the tickle will be suppressed. Unfortunately, a nose tickle isn’t so easy to cope with! And, sometimes … I sneeze! Owooo!

My suspicion is that it would be easy to sell a pain-suppressing inhaler to people who have sneezed a single time after surgery. If they could buy an inhaler that would spray a tiny bit of some appropriate numbing substance into their nose or throat when they were about to sneeze it would sell like fresh snake oil.

I’ve noticed that my pain hurts, and my acute powers of observation make it appear to me that other people’s pain hurts them too. Thus, I suspect that this product should be manufactured and sold where ever people who dislike pain congregate.

If you agree and are at risk of encountering pain, leave a note in the comment box and I will try to get a sample to you.