Tomi Cox

Chronic Pain Warriors, Find a story in our threads that hits home hardest and repost it today—let’s flood timelines with the truth and reach people who still think this only happens to “someone else.” Here are key connected threads to pull from (repost any, and keep the chain growing): 🔗 Main Evidence Pile (drop raw stories here): x.com/tlchronicpain/… 🔗 Post-Op Horrors (knee replacements, surgeries denied relief): x.com/tlchronicpain/… 🔗 Veterans Betrayed (suicides, forced cuts): x.com/tlchronicpain/… 🔗 Cancer Pain Crisis: x.com/tlchronicpain/… 🔗 Hospitals Profiting Off Denial: x.com/tlchronicpain/… 🔗 CDC Lies Exposed: x.com/tlchronicpain/… 🔗 Wrestlers & Celebrity Pain Truths: x.com/tlchronicpain/… Simple reposts = massive ripple effect. We’re in this together—thank you for every share!💜💥 #PainIsNotACrime #PainCrisis2025

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世界の皆さん！ あなたの好きなお花、もしくは住んでいるところに咲いているお花の写真を載せてくれませんか？🌸 みんなのお花を集めてこのポストをブーケにしたいです！ 見てもらえたら嬉しいな.....🌱

If peace comes, let it come armed. Let it pace the room with me. Let it understand why I sleep light and love heavy. Don’t ask me to unlearn the dark. It’s the only teacher that stayed. Just teach my heart how to stop bracing for impact long enough to breathe.

If you have ever lived in pain, you will understand the suffering, loss, and hope in these words.

Medical gaslighting, this is extremely hard to watch 💔 Using the word "hysterical" in 2026 to ignore a woman's pain is shameful. It's not a diagnosis; it’s a tool for gaslighting and withholding care. 😡

You might come to our feed for elephants – but did you know we come to the aid of any wild animal in need? Over the years, that's included aardvarks, pangolins and even cheetahs. This treatment – for the fastest animal on Earth – was an urgent priority for our attending SWT/KWS Mobile Vet Unit. Big Life had called it in: a territorial fight had left severe wounds on his paw pad and the top of his foot. A compromised paw is the difference between a successful hunt and starvation. He needed help, and he needed it quickly. A thorough clean and medication later, and he was on a healing course. When he came round, he rose to his feet and rejoined his brothers, who had waited nearby. Subsequent sightings confirmed he was already much improved. Looking back on cases like this one – from our archive, taking place in 2024 – is a reminder of what's at stake. Cheetahs have lost 90 per cent of their population over the past century and now occupy just 10 per cent of their historic range. Every individual that walks away from a treatment like this carries real weight for the species. That kind of intervention is only possible with consistent, reliable funding behind it. Monthly donations – whatever you're able to give – keep our pilots in the air, our vets on call, and our teams ready to respond when the alarm is raised: sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/donate

Fewer than 3,000 Grévy's zebras remain in the wild. Every single one matters – and this treatment, which took place in 2023, is indicative of the lengths we go to to save any individual. Our helicopter was in the air within moments, carrying an experienced KWS vet to the scene of the snared male. Darted from the air and treated on the ground, the vet assessed that a full recovery was possible. And so, a little floppy-eared, this Grévy's zebra walked back into the wild. Pushed to the brink by habitat loss, competition for water, and snares, Grévy's zebras are one of Africa's most endangered species. We continue to show our support for them – undertaking aerial surveillance, documenting sightings, running ranger patrols, and carrying out life-saving veterinary treatments. Your support makes it possible: sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/donate

Holidays can be very weird when you’re chronically ill. You show up to family gatherings if you can. Everyone asking how you’re feeling, if you’re getting better, and you just smile and nod, pretending you’re okay. Then you go home completely drained, and that’s when you start seeing it. Everyone posting family photos, pregnancy announcements, new chapters, and you’re genuinely happy for them. But at the same time, there’s a quiet feeling you can’t shake. Like your life is on pause while everyone else is moving forward. It’s not jealousy. It’s just loneliness.

You don’t think about pain when you enlist. You sit in that chair, young, upright, heart steady. You’re thinking about purpose. About proving something. About earning that title. For love of 🇺🇸 Not once do you think: What happens if I come back broken? Because somewhere deep down, you assume the answer is simple. If your country sends you into war, it will take care of you when you come home. That used to be true in a very specific way. Medics didn’t debate pain. They carried morphine into battle like it was as essential as a tourniquet. Because when a body is torn open, relief isn’t controversial. It’s immediate. Now imagine surviving that. Making it home. Sitting in a VA clinic instead of a battlefield. And feeling like you have to explain your pain. Prove it. Earn relief in pieces. That’s the part no one says out loud. Not in the recruitment office. Not in the commercials. Not when you sign your name. You risk everything for your country. And then you come home to a system that quietly asks: How much of your pain are we willing to believe…and then we send you on your way, knowing more than half of the veterans who die by suicide had already reported pain that wasn’t being adequately managed.

@jankissinger: My close relative committed suicide after his pain mgmt phy had his license suspended and no other phy would take him on March 2026”

Neep the Sheep, son of Turnip and owner of a teaspoon-sized brain, is now under maximum security in the glamping paddock. On Friday I put a new extra thick chain on his gate. Neep spent two full days staring at it, thinking very hard. By day three he decided subtlety was for cowards, charged the hedge, blasted a Neep-shaped hole and gallumphed down the road in triumph. Wilbur and Thrusty Clappernuts followed. (Thrusty, an elderly gentleman got tired halfway through the jailbreak celebrations and fell asleep in the middle of the road. On a blind corner.) I tracked them by following a trail of mud and sheep poo, found Thrusty impersonating a traffic bollard, Wilbur standing guard in the ditch, and Neep casually eating someone’s bedding plants. So now they’re in the glamping paddock, which has high stone walls, an outdoor library, tents and children’s toys. We are hoping this will keep Neep’s ADHD brain busy while we remortgage ourselves to re-fence the farm.

The loss of the independent physician has had devastating consequences on American society. Corporate medicine has destroyed American healthcare.

DEA suffers another blow - their absolute rule over pharmacies is getting reviewed by Courts at last! youarewithinthenorms.com/2026/04/02/cor…

If this reaches your timeline, don’t scroll past it. In Canada, MAID, Medical Assistance in Dying, and in the United States, “Death with Dignity” laws, already approved in multiple states, all exist under the idea of “choice” and “dignity.” In Canada, Kiano Vafaeian, 26, living with diabetes and depression, was approved to die in 2025, despite his family trying to stop it. In Spain, Noelia Castillo Ramos, 25, paralyzed after trauma, was approved to die in 2026. In the Netherlands, Lauren Hoeve, 28, bedbound with ME/CFS, autism, and chronic pain, was approved to die in 2024. Also in the Netherlands, Zoraya ter Beek, 29, was approved based on psychiatric suffering alone. And that’s where it ended. Not because suffering disappeared. Not because a cure was found. Not because they got their lives back. Because the system reached a point where it accepted the end of it. This isn’t about one country. This isn’t about one case. It’s about what happens when the people who are supposed to help you live… become the ones who approve your death. Sit with that.

The dog show was going perfectly until one dog realized there was a pig in the lineup and refused to let it go. In the middle of a formal dog show, while every other contestant stayed calm and collected, one dog kept staring at the same suspicious “competitor” with total disbelief. The crowd quickly realized why, mixed in with the dogs was a pig. From that moment on, the dog’s hilarious refusal to ignore the obvious turned him into the real star of the event.

@SpartanRyan13 I agree. The will to choose to keep going—to keep searching for hope—is the most beautiful thing.

I used to bargain for one pain free day. I stopped. Even the thought that it could be possible was enough for the light to burn out. I dont think people truly understand what chronic pain destroys.

There was a time when pain meant something. You walked into an ER holding your side, pale, sweating, barely able to stand… and people moved. Not because you were special. Because pain was. Now? You sit in a chair under fluorescent lights, trying not to cry too loudly… while someone types “back pain” into a chart. And if this keeps going? One day it’s going to be you. Sitting there. In real pain. And no one is coming.

The streets are littered with the highly addictive opioid, Suboxone Suboxone is linked to catastrophic dental decay, mouth trauma, psychosis, feelings of flat affect, many have reported oral and throat cancers #DontBeDupedIntoBupe

Absolutely ridiculous, Texas, considering we talk about medical freedom as it relates to prescribing dewormer off label but draw the line at treating pain in cancer patients. 🤦🏼‍♀️ The last 3 doctors I know of in Texas who were shaken down like this over prescriptions were oncologists treating pain in dying and extremely ill cancer patients despite Texas, at the height of the “prescribing crisis” averaging only 3 deaths per county per year - and they were due to illicit use. There was never a prescription “crisis” in Texas and overdose deaths have always been linked to illicit drug use in our state. Though my county bellied up to the trough when suing Perdue, and got millions, we never were affected by the “crisis” and are on the border where well….you can get just about anything under the sun. The Feds only now acknowledge the majority of the deaths of poly substance abuse and illicit as opposed to prescribed medications - so why are we still targeting doctors treating pain patients? What happened to medical freedom?

The government hates concierge medicine They can’t control concierge medicine doctors