Hi Jack:

This is your fellow Minnesotan. I started reading this Forum because I feared I might be developing PN - much aching and pain in one leg. It turns out that what I have is pinched lumbar nerve/s and recovery from this can be slow.

So I wanted to know just what PN involved, felt like etc. and have learned much from this Forum.

We all have our own individual pain threshold, and no one's pain is any more or any less than the next person's pain. When it hurts, it hurts and no one but the person having it can measure it.

I for one would be very sorry to have you not post and read here anymore.
You have much to contribute and we all learn from each other.

In addition, as a Minnesotan, I would like to thank you for your public service as a parole officer. That alone is enough to cause anyone great pain although probably more emotional and intellectual than physical. I sure can see how having to go to court often would be a real shoe concern. My late husband was a lawyer and he had much to say about one's dress in the courtroom.

So please, dear Jack, don't go! We would miss your contributions.

Shirley H.