Pain Steals

I’m going to let myself get personal for a minute. Today is shower day. If you had asked me three and a half years ago what the hardest part of my day would ever be, I would have laughed if someone said: “Taking a shower.” A shower? Something warm. Something comforting. Something people associate with relaxing after a long day. Three and a half years ago, I would have thought walking through soft sand at Clearwater Beach in the Florida heat, feeling the sun on my skin, the breeze coming off the water, playing two-on-two volleyball, running, pushing my body, would be harder. It isn’t. The shower became harder. Because for many people living with chronic illness and chronic pain, there are mountains hidden inside ordinary things. Standing upright. Heat. Pain. Dizziness. Heart rate. Fatigue. The quiet calculation that starts before the water is even turned on. “Do I have enough in me today?” People see a shower and see ten minutes. Some of us see an obstacle course. And unless you’ve lived it, I don’t think people understand the grief that comes with watching something that once meant comfort become something you mentally prepare for. To those living this too, I want to hear from you. What are your shower-day hacks? Shower chairs? Cooling tricks? Music? Breaking it into steps? Resting before and after? Jump into the replies. No judgment. No explaining yourself. Just people who understand the things the rest of the world often never sees.

🚨Canada is now using Communist style tactics and The Mental Health Act to medically incarcerate people with dissenting Views. This man, Nicholas Jordan Wagter, was declared “certified” without so much as a psychiatric evaluation and forceably detained for having dissenting views of the government. In the Soviet Union, they invented “sluggish schizophrenia” to lock up political dissidents in psychiatric hospitals for years. China does the same today with Falun Gong practitioners, Uyghurs, and anyone questioning the CCP. Cuba still uses psychiatric wards as political prisons.

America needs to treat its suffering war heroes with the same dedication and courage that they fought for us. Over 52% of our Veterans are suiciding solely due to untreated pain. Pain that can be treated with RX pain meds, but are denied. They'd rather make them suffer and end their own lives than treat physical pain.

🇨🇦 Cops in Vancouver pulled this guy over and told him he had to come with them because a psychiatrist certified him under the Mental Health Act. "What is going on? I've never been given a psych eval. He just looked at me and said you're certified."

Audrey speaks truth. This nurse below shows her absolute lack of compassion and someday, sadly everyone is caught in a pain situation. Nursing is hard. Charts follow patients forever. Be better!

Well said!!! "Many chronically ill patients no longer fear only their disease. They fear the healthcare system itself"

How many life threatening conditions are missed in chronic pain patients bc the ER assumes they're drug seeking? Patient story: "I went to ER by ambulance and because my dr. Sent paperwork saying I was removed from my pain meds the nurse said your out of here we are not giving you meds. I later was at a different hospital and my arteries were 95% blocked in needed two stents. That is why I had chest pain that was real I didn't ask for pain meds I wanted to know what was wrong."

I agreed to try one more time and if doctors reject seeing me I'm done. I agreed to try my 5th medicaid insurance. My glasses cost $350 and I'm homeless and broke. My tumor is killing me and if my CRPS flares I can't breathe . My "default" gf nagged me to death but I want her to see exactly why Medicaid sucks after Obamacare for patients like me and after falsely blaming pain management for the opioid crisis, I have been given two options suboxone and methadone but only a fentanyl patch 50 mcg/hrs quiets my inoperable neuroma. I try to tell people I'm legally blind and I am so sick after being neglected for so very long, I can't just wake up the next day and pick myself up. If that we're true, I'd be working but people misunderstand both of my diagnosis and what it's like to be so blind enough life is far too difficult. Death is preferable to another round of denials of medical care and treatment. I will document what happens starting tomorrow because I want people to see how I always hit a wall teying to get hel0 going into the 17th year and I want the public to see exactly what happens to me when I try again and then I am never going to try again after my tumor celebrated it's 16th birthday. I fkn swear I will try and if nothing changes I absolutely will end my life. The consequences of being denied pain management for all 7 million has been severe and I'm finish after this. Here's how I can see my computer screen a little but I have to put my eye up to my phone to use my phone.

Audrey speaks truth. This nurse below shows her absolute lack of compassion and someday, sadly everyone is caught in a pain situation. Nursing is hard. Charts follow patients forever. Be better!