Re: Introduction-Darlyene

[Guest guest]

Hi Darlyene,

Welcome to the group! I'm sorry you live in so much pain daily and have been

through so much. I'm very glad to meet you though! :-). This is a wonderful

group of people and I love opening my email and seeing messages from this

group. I don't know how you work three 12-hour shifts as a nurse when you are

in so much pain. I have head to toe RSDS/CRPS, among a few other chronic pain

conditions and the only job I am able to handle for the most part is the job I

do have. I am a people greeter at Kmart. I sit at a little table by the

entrance to the store and welcome people. It's a part time job, but it's a job

I'm so very glad I have. :-). I have been looking for a second job or another

job because I just cannot afford to live like I've been having to.

Anyways! I also enjoy having my little job. It has it's ups and downs of

coarse, but my ex husband didn't want me to work outside the home, so having a

job is great. It sometimes helps to take my mind off my pains, or at least ease

them up. Plus, I've met some wonderful people and have become friends with

customers to co-workers :-). It's very nice to meet you, Darlyene! I look

forward to chatting with you! Gentle hugs! :-)

Love,

Becky in NM

Darlyene wrote:

Thank you for accepting me into the group.

[Guest guest]

I don't know how you work three 12-hour shifts as a nurse when you are

> in so much pain. I have head to toe RSDS/CRPS, among a few other chronic pain

> conditions and the only job I am able to handle for the most part is the job I

> do have. I am a people greeter at Kmart.

>

> Becky in NM

Hello Becky. I know that I don't have any pain close to RSD. Bless you!

I think that I have hurt for so long that I don't know how bad I really do

hurt. Does that make any sense?

I remember being thrown from my horse and the severity of the muscle spasms

being so bad that I would cry out when one of the spasms hit me. It didn't

matter where I was. The spasms, over the years, have completely reversed the

curve in my neck. It took 30 years of muscle spasms to do that damage.

I finally had a cervical fusion to get the bones off of my nerves but the spasms

are still there. Nothing stops them. No amount of medicine stops those spasms

but they have ceased to hurt. Now there is just a constant soreness across my

upper back.

So I think with the evolution of my body I have adapted to most of the pain but

with my low back and hip there is no adaption left in me. Thank God that I was

able to have the procedure, last week, that has allowed me to stay on my feet. I

am scheduled for the Sciatic injections this Friday. Haven't heard what that

will cost me yet. UGH.

Darlyene