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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • Chronic pain is so difficult.

    There are no words in any language to sufficiently communicate how difficult it is.

    It is post operative surgery waking up in agony levels of pain, every day, forever.

    It breaks you mentally. It stunts your activity levels. It robs you of patience and kindness.

    It is torture, performed by no one, where you would do anything to make it stop. Anything.

    Being a compassionate, energy giving, productive, and present person in the lives of others whilst carrying the invisible caustic agony of chronic pain is a sysaphean task the is harder every degeneratively waking day.

    Doing the right things (2 hours of PT and exercises every day, cognitive behavioral therapeutic techniques, biofeedback tools, purposefully doing what is painful to prevent classic conditioning avoidance, and no medication for pain) is so fucking hard. Every single day.

    There is no vacation. There is no rest.