Poem: "Bedtime Rituals"

This poem came out of the January 22, 2015 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by prompts from librarygeek, mama_kestrel, and dialecticdreamer. It also fills the "falling asleep" square in my 2-28-18 card for the Slice-of-Life Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by technoshaman. It belongs to the Shiv thread of the Polychrome Heroics series.

Warning: This poem deals with the aftermath of sexual assault and Shiv's awful past, but it is mostly cottoncandy fluff.

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Name Your Pain Scale

Today I found this Name Your Pain Scale.  It's interesting because it combines a variety of descriptions, visual and text, into one infographic.  The really new part is the human shapes.  If you look at those, you can see they show the level of assistance needed -- from none to adaptive equipment to leaning on someone else.  This factor can be very useful in explaining the amount of impairment to someone else, especially a caregiver or caseworker.