Greetings and salutations to all, I'm the new kid on the block. This is my first experience in this type of arena, but I'm looking forward to becoming a part of such a vast and supportive community.

My friends and family call me Can, mainly, I suspect, because they're too lazy to bother with the extra syllable in Candace. I'm an almost-thirty year old banker living in the DC Metro area.

A spinal cord stimulator implanted in early 2011 for abdominal pain, and now, some new and troubling back pain have brought me to your community. In joining your ranks, I hope to be able to find and offer information, guidance, commiseration, and support, in and for others out there. Others who just might be feeling the same way I do, as much as it may often feel otherwise.

All too often I feel alone and exhausted in this fight against my pain, pain which breaks my spirit almost as much as it breaks my body. Facing each new day can seem like a rather daunting task, an insurmountable challenge, a never-ending uphill climb. Before I became a shell of my former self, transformed and unrecognizable by this pain, I used to always say "you can't let the daunting daunt you". Well my friends, I hope that with your help, I can become Dauntless once more!

Thanks!

-Can