Thank you! this is an amazing post, full of helpful and insightful information, every RSDer should read it. I did go back and read your older post, which is also a must read. I will copy these posts into my CRPS notes for reference.

We are quite similar. Weak ankles. Check. Nearsighted. Check. Stress. Check. Although, because I am a woman I did not have to worry about being drafted into that horrid war, but I worried about everything else.

Reviewing the totality of everything that has happened to me, in some ways it is surprising my body has held up as well as it did. But I would nonetheless like to get through this set back to go on and be productive. Anything that could possibly help me achieve that goal is going to tried.

Since I cannot afford everything suggested to me-like you said-a beach vacation, haha, I will find a close approximation. We are lucky to have streaming TV and youTube videos, because the sights and sounds of other places are as close as a remote. The same applies for self-hypnosis, exercise, massage, just about anything you can think of.

I am grateful for heating pads, heated blankets, paraffin wax heaters, massagers, the internet, all the things that were not available when this horrid curse was first named.