Emily, I didn't take your words as being flipant. As you've pointed out the odds are that stuff like that WON'T happen but in my case it did. So I am just learning to take it one day at a time.

I was thinking on the way back home from PT about the mental state changing after a traumatic injury. I don't know what you would call it. As you've encountered there are moments of feeling blue, of becoming weepy at the drop of a hat, of becoming angry or restless. I want to think that meds can contribute to it but even the days when I don't take my pain pills something is affecting my mental state. I fight the feeling of being overwhelmed. Then I go take a nap and I feel better. The body and mind work together in odd ways sometimes.