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Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: IL
Posts: 279
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Member
Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: IL
Posts: 279
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Originally Posted by mama mac
It sounds like you are trying your best to work the program, I just hope the program starts working for you! ~mac
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I'm just so discouraged at this point. My pain level has been elevated since the end of the first day (a week ago). I am finding that if I have to go to the bathroom more than normal, by the end of the day I am having to use the walker or scoot across the floor because I can't put weight on my leg.
And this book that I'm supposed to read is irritating me. I'm sorry, but why is "chronic pain" almost always associated with back pain/issues??? And when there is a diagnosed nerve component, why is that bypassed and it is automatically a 'problem' with the brain? I guess I could see the effectiveness of all the mumbo-jumbo if my pain was either at a more tolerable level &/or I had function. I don't. My pain level has been a pretty steady 7-9 since my first day in this program and was a steady 6-8 prior to. Sure, I can wake up at about a 3-4 but one trip to the bathroom and it doesn't get back to that.
I am struggling with going tomorrow...my kids are coming in from out of state tonight because their grandfather (my ex f-i-l) has been in ICU since Sunday night from an accidental overdose of one of his medications (not sure if it was insulin or a blood pressure med) and they found stage 4 cancer in his liver, lungs, tongue and throat. He is not able to swallow to eat and is refusing a feeding tube. So he is going home on hospice probably not going to make it a week. I won't even be here for my kids when they get in late tonight as I will be at my mom's for my stupid RIC (put me in more) pain program.
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Believe in the Strength of Faith and Hope, within there is Peace and Love...Always ~pe
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