Welcome VW,

Sorry for your reason for joining but you will find plenty of understanding here. Living with CRPS is a fine balance of fight AND acceptance. On the one hand is keeping up activity, strength, movement, and the never ending search for what things make life better and on the other is accepting our limitations so that we don't overtax our injuries and nervous systems. I push as much as I can while minimizing flare. I also try to take a long view of things. If using devices sometimes for mobility or curtailing/altering activity makes you better in the long term then that's what you do. Sometimes you have to judge this day by day and let go of preconceived notions about what you "should" be able to do at any given time. Sometimes it's just not up to us.

Forgive yourself for being the way you are, forgive others who may have inadvertently hurt you and come here when you need to vent. We all understand loss, anger and sadness. If it gets really difficult moving on consider a therapist who works with chronic pain and illness. That has been a big help for quite a few of us.

Maybe start a new thread to say hi and ask about the eye thing. You can search for this too. Seems like someone else was asking about that recently...

Sending Healing Love,
Littlepaw