It's amazing what chronic pain does for ones mood.
For years, I've struggled off and on with spine issues of some sort.
About a month ago I ended up in the ER with extreme low back pain. Now, I've given birth naturally--twice and this back pain exceeded that tenfold. It hurt so bad it brought me to tears and then it hurt to cry. The pain was the worst physical pain I've had--ever. But after the low came the high... My neck has been bothering me for months now...and not just a little bit. Let me esplain something to you all. I'm tough. Physically tough. When I was a kid and they gave inoculations in school, I was the tough kid who not only didn't cry, but watched them give me the shot. I was the arm wrestling champion. I was the dare devil who broke both arms trying to beat the record. I was the one who did dead men drops off the top of the swing set, not just the cross bar. As mentioned before, I gave birth naturally. Maybe it's the 1/16th Cherokee Indian in me, I don't know, but I'm tough... ...maybe to a fault.
