I need some help and advice

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The following message came to the owner list instead of to the group.

It's from Randy. He's a long time member who has been very, very quiet

lately:-)

Lyndi

--- I need some help and advice

Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:06:58 -0800 (PST)

To: chronic_pain-owner

Hello To everybody,

Hi I have belonged to this group now for a number of years and I am

hoping someone who maybe has been through this can help me. I am single,

not by choice, and I live alone. I no longer can work due to Pain from

my 7 back surgeries. I dont have a Pet, because i would have a dog but I

am not able to walk it. And then finally most of my friends have little

kids and are busy with there families. I don't really have any friends

left anyways, I lost much of them when i was going through my 4 year

ordeal.

The problem I have now is I am lonely and have a ton of time of my

hands. I play guitar and have for years, so that hobby takes up some

time. But, i wake up and wonder what I am going to do for the day and my

weekends suck. The one idea i thought of was to try to volunteer

somewhere like maybe the hospital by me. But there's not a lot there for

me to do, right now at least.

So Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions for me? I sure many people

have been or are in my situation and might have some ideas from there

travels. I am scared I am loosing a lot of my social skills plus I like

being around people. I live somewhat isolated and dont want too but,

feel kind of restricted from my disability.

Thank God for this group, I a have tried to Find a support group by me

for years with no luck. So this group has been real helpful and I

thought maybe they might have some ideas for me.

Thanks for listening.

randy