How do people who live with chronic pain do it?
It has only been a week of minor pain and then the last few days of a constant searing (it hurts to read, to type, to sit, to lie down, to stand) one that explodes in various parts of my skull. I don't say this to complain. But to honour those who live with this all of the time.
How do they survive? Play with their kids? Even listen to them when their tiny, normally adorable voices, drone like some sort of drilling machine that's targeting one's spine and it takes every bit not to tell them to go away?
It's amazing how much compassion develops when you suffer a similar, yet much less traumatic, set of symptoms.
A few months ago a very faith-filled woman in our community died. It surprised many of us who knew her, yet not those close whom knew the true amount of pain she had been going through. "Pain changes you," one woman who knew her well had shared, "constant pain can unimaginably change you".
I hadn't "got it" at the time.
I guess I sort of do now.
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