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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Michigan
Posts: 1,424
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Michigan
Posts: 1,424
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I have to laugh sometimes. I'm also a spinal patient, and when people ask me why I limp, or what's wrong with me -- and if I mention that I've had spinal surgeries, they say something like "Oh I've had a backache before too." WHAT? A backache? They don't have a CLUE what I'm talking about!!! I WISH I had a backache! I'm talking major PAIN here, and they're talking about a backache? Good grief.
Sometimes people give me a headache. I do NOT want pity -- just a little understanding.
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recovering alcoholic, sober since 7-29-93;severe depression; 2 open spinal surgeries; severe sciatica since 1986; epidurals; trigger points; myelograms; Rhizotomy; Racz procedure; spinal cord stimulator implant (and later removal); morphine pump trial (didn't work);now inoperable; lumpectomy; radiation; breast cancer survivor; heart attack; fibromyalgia; on disability.
Often the test of courage is not to die, but to live..
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