Wonder if we can hit the 200 mark?
Wide awake again tonight.

I'm doing okay tonight. Wish I could raise my old PM doctor from the dead, but am okay. I'm glad I am alive and well and have such a great son and husband. Also SO glad for this amazing group of loving and caring people. :)

i'm here.

i don't think i will be for long, i can't fight a nice fight here, i feel infected by what our "resident" does to people here and the toll of trying to knock down his totem of grandeur, righteousness and coldness is just too much for me to deal with every day.

i'm still here, so far. all of the great, true personalities here, raise a swallow cup to how far we all will go. if we work with our own doctors, don't let friends, family or rogue med students interfere with our gut, our treatment and our minds. some of ours very sensitive right now.

call your own shots and remember!!! you are paying your doctors, not the other way. cast a vote for cc's abuse to end, if you've got the time.

if i felt safe here, i'd be of much better use to us.

much love to all of my buddies here.
-jen

This morning I woke to the sound of my phone ringing. I tried to hurry and answer it forgetting I need to do my stretches before getting out of bed. Well, I didn't get the call nor the following three because my back went into a huge spasm. The kind you have to breathe through. My first thought was Oh dear Lord, my house is a mess! I was afraid I'd have to call for help. Thankfully my meds brought me down from screaming pain but I am still hurting tonight and wide awake..

Hugs to all and an extra warm embrace to all those having a hard weekend.

I think we should keep aiming for that 200 mark... I know there are new people joining all the time and it would be great if they would come to this post and do a little introduction for themselves... and of course all the oldies and the middle-agers should just keep right on posting.

At least here we seem to be free of any "debunking of our pain" so far. I'm sorry that those "discussions" cause you to feel unsafe brokenyolk. It is very distressing that so many posts now get hijacked by Mr Ye Shall Take No Meds... and that members then feel compelled to waste precious time and energy to point out how lacking in compassion, understanding, sensitivity and empathy he is (not to mention that he has no idea what it's like to live with chronic pain), when they could be much better employed giving support and hugs to the members here who do have chronic pain.

Sorry you are having so much trouble sleeping Sunny. It is such a viscous circle when pain stops us from sleeping adequately... because without enough sleep we are unable to cope with our pain as well as we would if we were sleeping enough. Sorry you are also suffering from sleep deprivation rayfoof.

Sorry to hear that your back is having a tantrum 1littleb... I hope it settles back down really soon. Have you considered getting a phone with multiple handsets so that you can have one close enough to your bed to be able to answer it without getting up?

We have had 24 hours of torrential rain here... which makes me feel rather down in the dumps... I need blue sky and sunshine in order to feel good. Yes I know I would be very sad if it never rained, because all the trees and flowers that I love so much would all keel over and die... but I think it should only be allowed to rain at night, so we get the blue sky and sunshine during the day... lol.

Sending gentle hugs and warm smiles to all the cpers...
take care... xxx

More hugs and love to all :)

Good morning everyone,
First I would like to say thank you to the family members of, and to those, if they can hear me, for making the ultimate sacrifice.

It is Memorial Day and I am at work. I would like to wish all others a great day also.

I feel as good as my crippled neck allows me to.

I would also like to say, "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain." Hopefully he doesn't take a leak,( excuse me ), all over this thread too.

Gaye, you are awesome. To all others here my heart of compassion is upon you. Please check in and let us know how you are doing today.

David.

(` * . . * ') . *' ) ( `* . (* . . * ') . *' --------This is a DS love and hugs chain... pass it on to people with good hearts --------( `* . (` * . . * ') . *' ) ( `* . (` * . * ') .

I had a wonderful surprise tonight just as I was cooking our meal - my gf rang from America to say HI and see how I was. That made my rather ordinary day a very special one!

Thanks for posting the love and hugs chain here Hathani. My friend Lesa sent it to me yesterday. I changed the wording a little bit and then sent it on to my friends list (because all my friends have especially good hearts) and now I am amazed at how far it has spread in such a short period of time. I have been seeing it all over the place today, and I know it is the one I started because of how I changed the words... lol.

I have always been envious of the people on DS who knew how to send hugs that have hearts and additional characters etc in them. If anyone knows how to do it would you perhaps share the explanation with us here on this thread... I would be very grateful because I just love sending hugs.
Wishing all the cpers a minimum pain day. Take care... xxx

Thank you David. I have been coming here for weeks on and off, needing to reach out, but finding myself staring at the page not able to write....Then I started reading the replies to your post and found the courage. I'm really struggling here, both physically + emotionally.

)))))))))))Peggy(((((((((((,
You just made my day. I'm sorry that you're struggling, but if it means anything to you I was really hopeful that you were still around. We are trying to keep this going so if you want to just check in and say I'm here, or I need a hug, please do it.

Your friend,
David.

I'm getting annyoed with trying to figure out when i'm sick or not. I have a tempturture and fatgtiue and a slight cough but i'm like that normally LOL i guess i'll have to ask my family how they feel. if one of them has a temp its probably a cold/flu but if they don't its just my condition so just try to take it easy i guess.

So frusterating to not be able to tell the difference between a cold and your illness

I'm still watchign this thread

I'm glad ya'll keep coming back. Home tonight, just chillin'. Wishing everyone who has pain a low pain night. Those who don't have pain I used to know how you feel.

Support to all my fellow cper's.

David.

Ray, I can totally understand your frustration. I admire how you deal with it all. As far as telling family and friends because your going to be around them. I probably won't mention it. I would go with how you feel. If you feel well enough to be around others and feel like socializing go for it. Hugs my friend