Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) is a chronic condition characterized by severe pain following injury to bone and soft tissue. The International Association for the Study of P...
every time i tried to go home, the tall slender woman with beautiffi; dark skin and her wide smile would look at me with a charm in her eyes, i would wait, walk back in forth in that little glass room, stareing out the window to the world i was thinking of leaving. i saw people all moveing to the same song, music, filled the air, no one in pain, they worked,to th...
Today was such a positive day I just have to write about it! Ever since the surgery I have felt like things were falling apart and I would never be able to live a life without pain and I wouldn't even have any answers to why not. I try very hard to not give up hope but it's been 6 months now since I had the spinal fusion and knowone seems to know why I feel so bad and when I will start fe...
I wanted to write a quick note on negativity today, while I am at work and highly bored. It's more of a response to yesterday than anything else, a chance to help others to understand me, and a chance to clear myself from feeling anything else that could throw myself into more of a flare than I'm already experiencing. Yesterday, I wrote a great deal in my journal. It may...
Its hard to believe! It's been a whole year. Yesterday would have been the marker of that day. I wore my "relay for life" tshirt all day, marking "victory" for myself. True, two months and 1 week ago from today marked the day that I discovered the lump a year ago.... but the biopsy marked when others truly started to stand up and take notice of something going on w/ me.... I...
Today could have been a very hard day if I would have let things get to me but I didn't. My day actually started after I fell trying to get up out of bed. At first I was very suprised because I wasn't sure what had just happened. Well I called for Bill a few times and when he finally heard me he said "just a minute",lol. He had no idea I was on the floor ...
well today i will celebrate my 44th birthday,normally that number would bother me but not today i am so grateful and thrilled to still be alive,and with he lords help i will celebrate next year too. i was snuggling with my husband today[we were celebrating our 12th wedding anniversary]and we were talking about this time last year.. how terrified we both were and how neither of us thou...
Ok I called an attorney yesterday to help me file for disability until I can get well enough to go back to nursing. It sucks but I know I can't work right now. I have a hard enough time just putting on my own shoes and the pain really is too much to function with on most days. So I started a back journal, in it I am gathering everything I can related to my back and the other...