[Lottie]

Hi friends, I am not very good at expressing my ideas lately, but I will giveit a go. I tend to keep my pain and mobility challenges hidden. It is partly because I am a private person, partly because I have always been a hard working productive person and don't want to be perceived otherwise, partly because I don't want to be gloomy gus and partly because I don't trust anyone would really understand. Because of this approach, most people outside of my husband and daughter don't have a clue about how much I suffer. But I don't feel up to explaining it. If I had a cancer diagnosis, people get that and would ask "how you doing"? But no one ever asks me. I just want someone to say "I know you must be suffering and I can see how hard you work to keep things as normal as possible ". SO I was wondering if u would be willing to share how you go about balancing your "public face" with your private suffering?

I hope this makes sense