Pain, it is so nice

Here's what to do when you are trying to study for a chemistry final AND a physics final and you have 10 hours left and you are in pain. Pain that hurts. First, eat. You think that eating will help, perhaps you just ache because you are lacking in nutrients. Eating does not help. Then, take one Excedrin and one Tylenol, a nice combination because the caffeine in the Excedrin will help you stay awake to study. An hour later, when the pain is worse instead of better, take 2 Aleve. Get a hot water bottle for your feet, because being cold makes your muscles tense and that hurts. A half hour later, get a heating pad for your back, which hurts. The heating pad might distract your brain from the pain signals, maybe. But no, not really. So, eat homemade tapioca pudding. Tapioca pudding really should help, it is so silky and creamy and vanilly. But, no, not really. Really you eat too much of it and get a stomach ache. So, then, just try to keep studying, ignore the pain and the stomach ache. Then, give up, and go take a hot shower. Stay in there until all the hot water is gone. You will feel better while you are in the shower, at least. Then you will sit down to study some more, and within 20 minutes you'll hurt just as much. And you will not be able to take any more pain relievers until tomorrow, and the tapioca pudding will be all gone and you will forbid yourself to make another batch. And there will be no more hot water for your second hot bath of the day, or for another shower. And it will be 10 o'clock, and you will have many many more chapters of Physics to study before you sleep. And oh, Chemistry, too.