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About Me

I'm 52, was forced from a very successful aerospace career onto disability when I was 49 due to nerve caused pain in both knees, lower legs, and feet. I experience burning, severe muscle aching, and what I can only say is pain that seems to come from inside the bones. Later I developed secondary osteoarthritis in both knees, ankles, and feet. The same places that already hurt from a neuropathic cause. I've had 5 back surgeries including 2 seperate lumbar fusion operations. I'm pretty much bed-ridden, either because I'm in pain, or I'm trying to avoid it. Sometimes just laying still in bed hurts. The doctors tell me to expect to spend the rest of my life this way unless some new miracle drug is developed that will eliminate or significantly reduce my pain. So here I lay, day after day, in pain and lonliness.

I'm 52, was forced from a very successful aerospace career onto disability when I was 49 due to nerve caused pain in both knees, lower legs, and feet. I experience burning, severe muscle aching, and what I can only say is pain that seems to come from inside the bones. Later I developed secondary osteoarthritis in both knees, ankles, and feet. The same places that already hurt from a neuropathic cause. I've had 5 back surgeries including 2 seperate lumbar fusion operations. I'm pretty much bed-ridden,