Chronic Pain Support Group
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I am historically a bit of a hard head...
No matter what happens i put one foot in front of the other and keep pushing forward. As a child i would get beaten repeatedly, but i refused to look away, refused to cry, i wouldn't back down I just kept pushing on and after 15 or so years he gave up trying to break me....
All throughout my career i advanced because i never gave up i worked harder, pushed further and went faster than any one. I literally would push until i was exhausted and then push more ...
As a fighter i only lost once and that was the first time, after i tasted the mat once i learned to push harder there as well...
Now my body is pushing back....
I suffer 3-6 daily dislocations, every disc but 1 in my back is shot...bone on bone. if i breath too fast or deep i dislocate ribs, i dislocate fingers typing on my keyboard. I have arthritis over 95% of my body i can feel my spine twisting on good days, my feet swell as well as my legs and my kidneys are iffy. both rotator cuffs are worn away, the joint in my jaw swells and dislocates when i yawn. I have no sensation in the skin and muscles in either hand...all i feel in them is pain.... My right knee has a torn mcl, my left has a torn mcl, acl, and a patella that not only floats out of position, but has recently separated into several pieces. my hormone levels are way off, my emotional highs and lows are astronomical. I have in my life broken 190+ bones some multiple times and every healed break aches, i carry around 27 lbs of surgical metal everywhere i go, pins, rods, plates, screws. I have been shot, stabbed, crushed , broken and anything you can think of......... but still i push.....
I swim for 1-2 hours every morning when i can, 3 times a week i hop on an exercise bike with 7 different braces on to hold me together. and currently i am trying to find an EDS specialized PT to try and stabilize some of my joints........still pushing.....
Kill me if you can......that is the only way i will stop.....every drop of life will have to leave this mortal coil before i stop pushing.......Pain reminds me that im alive ...... and that im still pushing......
Kris...........
No matter what happens i put one foot in front of the other and keep pushing forward. As a child i would get beaten repeatedly, but i refused to look away, refused to cry, i wouldn't back down I just kept pushing on and after 15 or so years he gave up trying to break me....
All throughout my career i advanced because i never gave up i worked harder, pushed further and went faster than any one. I literally would push until i was exhausted and then push more ...
As a fighter i only lost once and that was the first time, after i tasted the mat once i learned to push harder there as well...
Now my body is pushing back....
I suffer 3-6 daily dislocations, every disc but 1 in my back is shot...bone on bone. if i breath too fast or deep i dislocate ribs, i dislocate fingers typing on my keyboard. I have arthritis over 95% of my body i can feel my spine twisting on good days, my feet swell as well as my legs and my kidneys are iffy. both rotator cuffs are worn away, the joint in my jaw swells and dislocates when i yawn. I have no sensation in the skin and muscles in either hand...all i feel in them is pain.... My right knee has a torn mcl, my left has a torn mcl, acl, and a patella that not only floats out of position, but has recently separated into several pieces. my hormone levels are way off, my emotional highs and lows are astronomical. I have in my life broken 190+ bones some multiple times and every healed break aches, i carry around 27 lbs of surgical metal everywhere i go, pins, rods, plates, screws. I have been shot, stabbed, crushed , broken and anything you can think of......... but still i push.....
I swim for 1-2 hours every morning when i can, 3 times a week i hop on an exercise bike with 7 different braces on to hold me together. and currently i am trying to find an EDS specialized PT to try and stabilize some of my joints........still pushing.....
Kill me if you can......that is the only way i will stop.....every drop of life will have to leave this mortal coil before i stop pushing.......Pain reminds me that im alive ...... and that im still pushing......
Kris...........
i'll be prayin you find just the right therapist
PEACE
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My heart breaks for all that you have been through and all that you are STILL going through. You have been through it, yet you still solider on....putting one foot in front of another, just as you said. You are a very courageous man and an inspiration to others.
I will keep you in my thoughts & prayers,
Carrie
Wishing you the best!!
A body in motion stays in motion. Very true!
Sandy
You are amazing simply amazing! Next time i get down and think of my pain i will think of you. What a inspiration you are to us all.
How on earth did u have all those things happen to you?
I cannot fathom a day in your shoes. Thank you for sharing with us all. Keep on pushing! We can all get behind you and help you over those hills.
Debbie
First of all i am no braver than any of you, we all deal with our pain each in our own way. I just happen to deal with mine this way. I do take hormones and so far they are helping with the highs and lows but we are still dialing them in.
As to how i got this way well thats a lot of different ways... I was abused as a child, and at age 10 i was run over by a truck on the way home from school, that accounted for most of my broken bones and the issues with my hands as they were crushed when that happened. my eye was a result of glass during a car accident, and my dislocations are all due to EDS.
Like i said im more stubborn than brave and i never really knew a life without pain, maybe thats how i push on its all i know....
Kris.....