Something one of my friends on my space posted to me. She is 15 now.


EVERYBODY IMAGINE....

Just imagine that you have a seemingly normal injury.

Imagine the pain from that injury becoming the monster in your nightmare, never giving in.

Imagine crying yourself to sleep every night for months or even years because nobody knows why the pain won’t go away and nobody can help.

Imagine being told as a mere child that you have something that will never let you run again; never let you play sports, and force you to quit many of the things that you love.

Imagine a doctor looking at you and honestly saying without a sign of sympathy to deal with it, to move on with life and to accept it.

Imagine that every night the only thing you pray for is relief, a brief moment without this pain, just an instant where you can be like all the other kids.

Imagine taking more pills than your grandparents with their heart problems and diabetes.

Imagine a new procedure every week, a new hope that makes you cry for fear it won’t work.

Imagine watching your loved ones cry for you knowing they cannot do anything, afraid to comfort their “baby” with a hug because it might hurt you even more.

Imagine trying to hide your tears so that hopefully your loved ones won’t notice how much pain you’re in and won’t be so sad.

Imagine that all of your friends leave you because you are different, “disabled,” and they don’t know what to say or do.

Imagine for just one moment, that you don’t know what to do. Your world is falling apart, you always hurt and its causing family problems; money issues trying to pay for the procedures and pills, job loss because so many days are taken off of work for procedures and appointments, and a lack of hope the whole way around.

Imagine thinking back to the days before the monster and realizing that though your age says your still a kid, you have been forced to grow up too fast and your childhood will never be the same

Imagine that you are all you really have and you are facing a monster that nobody can see, just like in your nightmares when you were little.

~Written by: Anabel Gilbert


PARENTS, Imagine....

Imagine your child has a seemingly normal athletic injury.

Imagine that injury turning into the worst nightmare of your lifetime.

Imagine going from doctor to doctor looking for answers and getting none for months or years.

Imagine learning your child has an incurable nerve disorder with only ‘trial and error’ treatment options.

Imagine watching your child endure excruciating pain without relief.

Imagine your child being told by doctors to ‘get used to the pain’ or ‘it’s just in your head’

Imagine having your child scream when a cotton ball touching her skin feels like a razor peeling her skin.

Imagine looking forward to anesthesia because that’s the only time there’s relief from pain.

Imagine undergoing numerous epidurals, in-patient IV morphine drips, out-patient continuous blocks where anesthetic is pumped by catheter to the spine, forty treatments in a Hyperbaric Oxygen Chamber, spinal column stimulator trial to interrupt the pain, and taking more medications than you knew existed.

Imagine this is your child and you pray and worry night and day.

Imagine watching your child’s life deteriorate in front of your eyes – a carefree, athletic, cheerful and outgoing child having to finish school at home, college dreams quashed, trying to hold down a jobs then having to apply for disability, enduring physical changed due to medications no young woman wants to face, realizing she might never be able to have children, accepting dependency on others.

Imagine being that once-vibrant child dealing with not only the physical pain, but the pain of isolation, loss of friends and the loss of hope for a ‘normal’ life.

Imagine your struggle as a parent or wife/husband as you try to hold thing together physically, mentally and financially in the midst of other family illness, job looses, etc, over time.

Imagine having to face the reality of needing outside help!

~Author Unknown, Tweaked by Karrie Lumbsden

Imagine your an adult with all of the above.
Added by allen


........IMAGINE RSD!