Joan, you are so right. Many who do not actually experienced the malady cannot
understand others' health problems. How arrogant! Joan, how is your sore
healing?
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Section1 } Those of us who are lucky enough to be blessed with high
pain thresholds, or relatively manageable pain, should never say dont do it
because we do not know what it is like. I had a high threshold of pain before I
broke my neck-walked around on a broken foot with multiple breaks for four days
before I went to the Dr.! I still have constant pain to deal with, but for the
most part its manageable with OTC drugs and keeping very busy. I have been in
bed now for five months and the pain has been much more difficult to manage
then when I am able to be up and outside. But thats the nature of the beast.
Each of us struggles with a different problem-and we have to deal with our
own problems in the way that is most acceptable to us. Before we make a blatant
statement in response to an email on this list, we should remember that speech
inflections do not show up in our printed words. And we might mean this as
tongue in cheek, but the opposite of what we actually mean is taken offensively
by others.
Have a great day every one Joan
From: RONALD L PRACHT [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 7:03 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [QUAD-L] Pain one of the most personal battles
Hey,
I read the arrogant comment to stay off drugs. Well....obviously this
person has no real pain because let me tell you this much, if you are in
serious pain that puts you in bed moaning and crying...you will try drugs.
People that have little or no pain think that those that use drugs are weak
addicts. This is flawed thinking. If you are in bed 5 days a week with pain,
and with drugs you are able to function just lets say two more days it is worth
it.
None of us are going to live forever, so making the time we have more
productive and happy is the name of the game.
Life is about doing what you gotta do, moreso with spinal injury.
Ron c7
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