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Originally Posted by rkzenrage
I know I will never be pain free.
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Five years ago I thought that's how it would be for me for the rest of my life. At the beginning of this year, when the pain escalated, I questioned how I could continue to function this way.
But now that it is easing I'm actually more anxious about it.
In that state of constant, intense pain, it becomes such a reality it is the lens through which I saw the world. Now my world has changed . . . again.
In your shoes, I would be reading that and saying "yeah, but give me that change, I'll take it!" I wish I could. I wish whatever miraculous (or not) thing that is going in me could be duplicated.
If I were rich, I would dump tons of money into research of the nervous system, how pain works, etc. Oh how I love to rant about the medical system . . .
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Originally Posted by rkzenrage
As for my family, supportive-vs-controlling, flip a coin.
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That's a toughie, all right. But you know, I tell my husband all the time that I don't like how he does things and there is nothing wrong with him!
It is hard to live in close proximity and not see that someone could be doing something differently, better, more efficiently . . .
We've practiced so much open communication in our relationship and when we've talked it all out and all is said and done, it gets back to square one: what do I want him to do? Hell, I don't know! I just want it to feel right!