Chronic Pain Support Group
Physicians and professionalsdefine pain as chronic if it lasts longer than three to six months and is persistent. It's distinct from acute pain that is a direct result of injury or trauma. This support group is dedicated to those suffering from chronic pain. Discuss treatments that have worked for you, find advice for your specific experience, and find support. You're not...
I heard this on a tv program this evening and it gave me pause... "lesser people than you have done far more" . It is kind of weird but I was ltying there thinking how powerful of a quote that was when I think of how many times I think I just can't tolerate the cp for much longer.
Just thought I would share. Hope e erroneous has a good night tonight.
In peace and friendship
-W
Just thought I would share. Hope e erroneous has a good night tonight.
In peace and friendship
-W
Thanks
Here's my contribution:
Stay the course, light a star,
Change the world where'er you are.
Richard Le Galienne
Thank you all who post here - you make my world a brighter place!
Hugs,
Raggedy
one day i was sitting in a parking lot and i looked up and noticed a woman in about her late 60's with a cane trying to walk across a busy 2 lane street..what made it worse than just walking across the street was that she was bend forward at the waist and she could only look at the groud will trying to walk with her cane, and a horrible limp..she was so handicapped she couldn't look anywhere but the ground a police officer happened to noticed her, and stopped traffic so she could make it..that wasnt the amazing part either, she was wearing a mcDonalds uniform!!
i have cp due to a major low back double fusion from 8 years ago, i suffer from degenerative disc disease.. (DDD) and hadn't worked in 8 years, and here was this brave older woman (i'm 46), and at that moment i made a life changing decision that if she could do it with her obvious handcap then i surely needed to try..
So here i am today (4 months later) with a great job, and dealing the best i can with my cp...she honestly gave me some inside strength i didnt think i had, but when i saw her i said "if she can do it, so can I"... miracles and angels come in all shapes and sizes...
thanks for sharing this story is very important for me to think about when i am having a hard painful day at work.....
hugs, serenity
I have handicapped plates, but consider myself the most able bodied disabled person, so I seldom park in the blue spaces.
At a convience store yesterday, I'm leaving, hurting from a 150 mile drive, when an elderly woman (70's) open the door for me, 10 ft away, her husband, bent over, barely able to lift his head to see me, says 'don't wait for me'. My thought are the same, tell him, 'were not in a race'.
I do life at 25 mph in a 30.
Sorta of what Strike and Dan were relaying... I sometimes forget to keep in mind that, when put to the test, what we are capable of doing in hard times and strife can be portrayed in th faces and lives of all those who have so bravely walked the path of hardship before us and prove to us that we CAN do it. Not sure if that was explained well...?