It's been 20 years since my trip to South America and it's this time every year when I contemplate whether many occasions of sickness over 4 months (including food poisoning, altitude sickness, pneumonia, and infected bug bites) became the origin story to the fucked up but medical mystery gut illness I've had since then, and whether that caused a ripple effect leading to other illnesses.
Thank you for the comment about saying fuck off to “silver linings”. People would say that my suffering brought me closer to God. No. Just no. There is no “upside” to suffering. Don’t try to make one up.
I wish there was a magic wand that could be waved and your quality of life would magically improve. I hope that when you return to a normal, sarcastic Feisty that you go on the road inspiring others and write a best-seller book that makes you millions. Or maybe write a children's book about dealing with pain throughout the day and how to deal with numbing pain. I would certainly buy either book!
As someone else who has been living with chronic pain for longer than I care to think about, I hear you. The part that gets to me is the cyclic pain/fatigue/depression mess. Whenever one part flares up, it aggravates the other two in a snowball effect that reaches a stage where they're all so inextricably linked that it becomes next to impossible to distinguish where one ends and the next begins.
And don't get me started on doctors, working for employers or insurance companies, that refuse to accept that the absence of "objective medical evidence" definitely means you are lying about how much it hurts.
Love the ink. Love the dog. And even that guy 😉 who takes all those fantastic photos! See ya in the funny papers 😎
Thank you for the comment about saying fuck off to “silver linings”. People would say that my suffering brought me closer to God. No. Just no. There is no “upside” to suffering. Don’t try to make one up.
Right?! Definitely not helpful trying to find some kind of silver lining in all of that.
I wish there was a magic wand that could be waved and your quality of life would magically improve. I hope that when you return to a normal, sarcastic Feisty that you go on the road inspiring others and write a best-seller book that makes you millions. Or maybe write a children's book about dealing with pain throughout the day and how to deal with numbing pain. I would certainly buy either book!
Thank you Gary, I appreciate you.
As someone else who has been living with chronic pain for longer than I care to think about, I hear you. The part that gets to me is the cyclic pain/fatigue/depression mess. Whenever one part flares up, it aggravates the other two in a snowball effect that reaches a stage where they're all so inextricably linked that it becomes next to impossible to distinguish where one ends and the next begins.
And don't get me started on doctors, working for employers or insurance companies, that refuse to accept that the absence of "objective medical evidence" definitely means you are lying about how much it hurts.
Love the ink. Love the dog. And even that guy 😉 who takes all those fantastic photos! See ya in the funny papers 😎
Yes to all of this, and thanks!