just deal with it

stupid shingle pain won't leave, but i started a new med yesterday that may do some good, if i can deal with the dizziness --- i sincerely hope that pain management is not going to be a permanent feature in my life ---

pain has an element of blank;
it cannot recollect
when it began, or if there were
a day when it was not.
  
it has no future but itself,
its infinite realms contain
its past, enlightened to perceive
new periods of pain.
                                     emily dickinson