Life after 60 – Adventure

I Understand Pain ~ Pain is Relative by Meredith

by on Nov.06, 2009, under Health/Fitness/Beauty

I Understand Pain ~ Pain is Relative
Posted on November 04th, 2009 in chronic pain

Pain is something that is relative. I have nonstop pain, but that is my pain. People often during the course of a conversation will be talking about their pain and say “well it is nothing like you deal with” but I disagree, where I do not know, I do know my pain, I know that it is relative. Someone else’s pain is just as as mine. It is all in relation to the worst pain each individual has felt. For example, before my surgery I was in constant pain, I knew the surgery could not guarantee my pain to be resolved, I remember thinking, well if I do not do the surgery I am pretty much guaranteed to hurt like this forever so I decided to go ahead with it. Well the surgery Did take care of the pain I had but caused a pain exponentially worse, and way more intense. So where as before tat was the worse pain I know, and now I know a worse pain. But being that it is relative, the pain I felt before was the worse so I could not imagine any more. I now know different, I also know that the pain I felt when I opened my eyes after being filleted open for hours and muscles detached, torqued with a torque wrench, two rods bolted down either side of my spine , the middle part of 5 ribs removed and left broken and then having to lay flat on my back on a fresh incision for 6 hours before I could be sat up, was Absolutely By Far the worst pain I have ever known. When my pain spikes now some days it is so intense that I wonder how my body does just not pass out, yet I am able to push on, or sometimes just crawl on, but move forward nevertheless.
My point is that pain is an individual thing, it is personal, it depends on so many things…

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This is a very interesting article by a good friend of mine relating to living with pain. We met on Twitter a couple weeks before we both were to attend IZEAfest in Orlando. I helped get her hooked up with a few friends and we both had a blast while in Orlando. It was supercharged and included a lot of physical activities. I could hardly keep up with Meredith. She was so upbeat every day even when she was working through severe pain.

My pain is minor compared to her pain. Mine came about as a result of a career in law enforcement. In fact, I can tell a story for just about every pain I have  – which will be about an encounter with a suspect.

Visit Meredith’s blog by using the above link. I think it will be well worth your time.

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