Hi Thanks for the nice words Mike . I hope I am always making it clear that my having RSD Dx ed since 1968 doesn ot make my pain worse (In fact the pain Doctor here told me all my nerves burnt out anyway [what an idiot],when I refused the Morphine Pump and thats all he does and his partner does oh also SGB and Epidural etc blocks )and I have had so many ,I was told it would be unwise to get more blocks .Different things work for people whos RSD was gotten and treated differently I would still like Doctors to treat us as one Intractable Pain patient at a time ,the RSD is more about my pain to Doctors and my RSD makes me part of a cohesive community of other RSDers and I am proud to belong to it especially here when i think of all the really strong caring people in pain I have gotten to know

Most important to me is to always let people know that I can't feel my RSD Pain from 1968 ,I only feel it right now ,which to me means all of us RSDers are at the same temporal place as far as pain
Now I was born XX XY and I still feel pain from that ,and I sometimes wonder if maybe I was more apt to get RSD because of that ,since it seems so many more women than men have RSD ,I even feel kinda bad when there are women's only RSD Groups (like For Grace) and it makes it look like RSD isnt as important in men ,but I guess I can join either type of group ,it's Thanksgiving it's a long day ,I hope everyone has a Wonderful Thanksgiving ,my lady wants us to go shopping I think at like 4AM why do people do this (I'll follow Melissa anywhere),it is much more fun to get to give a lot of presents to people though I haven't been able to for a long time ,I live at Sheltercare and they give us so many presents ,it is very humbling ,its also humbling to hear such nice words from people with RSD who are hurting but getting through just as well as possible

Gentlest Hug Mark