1. When you can feel that the time is around the corner.
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Do I have to go through this?!
2. When you’re emotional for no reason and everything around you makes you want to cry. Or laugh. Or roll around.
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I don’t even know again.
3. When someone points out that you’re emotional for no reason.
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Is this one mad?
4. When you want to attempt movement even though you’re in pain.
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I can’t.
5. When you sneeze while on your period.
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Gosh!
6. When someone dares to breathe around you.
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HOW DARE YOU?!
7. You when someone touches your food/ hair/ anything without asking.
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Kuku kill me oh!
8. When everyone talking around you sounds like they’re shouting.
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Shut up now?!
9. When you finally find pain killers.
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I love you!
10. You, waiting for the painkillers to kick in.
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Na wa oh, is it not just to dissolve?
11. When you have taken the maximum painkiller dosage for the day but the pain just won’t go away.
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Should I take more?
12. When you’re nursing your pain and someone invites you to go out.
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NO!
13. When your pain starts on Sunday but you have to suck it up and go to work on Monday.
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It’s hard outchea!
14. When your colleagues try to interact with you in your state.
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Not today, Satan!
15. When bae asks “How are you feeling?”
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You can’t understand me. You don’t know my pain. You don’t know my struggle!
Co-written by Zikoko Contributor, Obeyaa Atta