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 the universal truths that come along with a life of chronic pain. A couple of days ago I went to pick up my granddaughter from her school bus near her home. I love the color and joy of that experience as tiny children disembark in Disney jackets of bright colors, hats of all description pulled down over their ears, half-empty lunch pails clanking in colorful backpacks. Then we drove over to our house to meet her brother’s school bus which arrives about twenty minutes after hers. He gets off near our house on the days they visit me. Some days she wants to race home to my house and make a quickly eaten butter sandwich; her choice, not mine. When it’s sunny, as it occasionally is here in Oregon, we walk the block to meet my grandson. This week it was raining and we decided to drive over and wait for him. She wasn’t hungry and she wanted to chat. I love se...
Source: Life with Chronic Pain - Category: Other Conditions Authors: Tags: Pain Management chronic pain and family living with chornic pain Source Type: blogs