Physical Pain

Physical Pain

Any kind of pain sucks. There are three kinds of pain - mental, physical and pain in the ass pain. This blog is about physical pain. 

Physical pain comes in different flavors. A pin prick hurts, but is gone in an instant. Breaking a bone or tearing a ligament is very painful and can last months. However, some pain lasts forever. I have two bad disks in my lower back plus an arthritic condition in the same area. I've been in pain most of my adult life.

There is only a 50% - 50% chance an operation will relieve my pain, but there is also a 50% - 50% chance I will come out of the operation worse than when I went in, sooo I decided to live with the pain. As a matter of fact, the pain shooting down my leg is part of my life. I've embraced it instead of hating it.

I sometimes have fabulous dreams that all my pain is gone. That dream only lasts until I wake up in the morning. I don't like taking pain pills so I do all I can to keep my weight down and going to the gym to build up my core and the rest of my body to minimize the chances my back will go completely out which leaves me in the worse kind of pain - which is debilitating pain. 

Debilitating pain is pain that stops you from living your life. When that happens to me I have no choice but to get a steroid injection (it's an anti-inflammatory) in my back from my Pain Doctor. If any of you have debilitating pain, I feel your pain.

At one time in our life, we all have pain of some kind. The older we get the more chances we will be in pain. The old saying: "getting old is a bitch" is sooo true. However, how we deal with the pain will determine if we're going to live life to the best we can make it or if we are going to live a life saying: "woe is me."

Life is too short to let pain of any kind (including mental pain) to steal the life we deserve. If it's short term pain, understand it will eventually go away. If it's long term pain, find a way to see the pain as part of your life not the end of your life.

My last blog was called: "LIFE IS GOOD!" The alternative to not dealing with the pain is a lousy life. Sooo, ask yourself: would I rather live life with the pain or let the pain ruin my life. Those of you that are in pain now have a choice. 

I Choose Life Over Pain