Make Life More Than Chronic Pain
Each week when I sit down or lie down with my laptop, well, on my lap, I wonder how I can make some of the same messages new and more interesting for all of you. After writing 650 blogs, there aren’t many subjects we have not touched upon. Since there are always new readers, some of what I have to say will be fresh to them but stale to those of you who have been with me a long time. Therefore, it is a challenge to say many of the truths and lessons I’ve learned over and over in a whole new package as I share them with you. I’ve never been accused of being boring, so let’s see if once again we can discuss some of th...
Source: Life with Chronic Pain - February 7, 2013 Category: Other Conditions Authors: Sue Falkner-Wood Tags: Pain Management chronic pain and family living with chornic pain Source Type: blogs
Chronic Pain? Don’t Make a Meal Out of It
I chat with and hear from many other people who live with chronic pain. Like any other jolt in life, we each react differently when we’re shaken up, according to our attitude, our families and our physicians. I am constantly amazed by the reactions, the sorrows and the amazing joys in my own life and in others.
These vessels, these bodies we walk around in are fragile and destined for extinction. Once we accept that fact, it makes the whole process of suffering chronic daily pain so much simpler to deal with. The suffering is not going to last forever; neither are the joys, the opportunities and experiences. There is a...
Source: Life with Chronic Pain - February 1, 2013 Category: Other Conditions Authors: Sue Falkner-Wood Tags: Pain Management emotional health and pain survivng chronic pain Source Type: blogs
Always Leave ‘Em Laughing
What’s so funny about living with chronic pain? Actually, a great deal of it is humorous. We often have to put down our self-pity, place our fear on the back burner and just open our eyes and look around. I know, it may not be pretty but at least we’re still breathing, more or less.
I consider myself fortunate for a number of reasons. First of all, my father was a funny man. He loved to make others laugh and loved bringing joy into their lives. I also have been stricken from the earliest days of my disability with a condition that always brings a smile to the face. Awe, come on. How can you or the person you’re talk...
Source: Life with Chronic Pain - January 17, 2013 Category: Other Conditions Authors: admin Tags: Emotional Health happiness laughter Source Type: blogs
Cough, Cough, Hack, Hack, It’s Flu Season Again
While reading one of my favorite magazines yesterday, NATURAL HEALTH, I ran across a small list of facts about the flu compiled by a fellow writer, Kate Wertheimer. Depending on your propensity for yukiness, you may want to read this list with caution however, we’re all out there together getting exposed to all those live viruses who often are being carried by folks with little if any sense about how contagious they are. We’ll get to her list later, which was compiled in New Zealand. Apparently they do a great deal of research in most countries about the strains of viruses they can and will choose for their flu inocula...
Source: Life with Chronic Pain - January 10, 2013 Category: Other Conditions Authors: admin Tags: Flu cold cough cold and flu flu and pain Source Type: blogs
I Hate Cold Weather
I know snow’s lovely
It sparkles like frosting.
Best from the window
Or I’ll need deicing.
Cold actually hurts
Like a third-degree burn;
I’ll pass on the snow play
Give a child my turn.
I wonder if it’s aging
Or just my lousy pain
But with either choice
I’ve not a thing to gain.
I often wonder how they did it
Our ancestors I mean.
I think I would have “held it”
To avoid that outdoor latrine.
I simply can’t imagine
Burning buffalo chips or peat
Just to warm a cabin
How did they retain their body heat?
Yes, they have my admiration
How did they survive?
Perhaps that’s just one reason
Most died at thirty-five...
Source: Life with Chronic Pain - January 3, 2013 Category: Other Conditions Authors: admin Tags: weather cold weather and pain snow winter Source Type: blogs
