AvatarOfUrDreams's Blog

I just took the Do You Have Chronic Pain quiz and answered yes to all but about 3 questions…

It is so hard to live and ENJOY life when everything to do is centered around making sure that you will be able to participate without being practically bed ridden the next day because of the pain. I look so normal! That is a BIG part of the problem…

I’m only 26 years old yet have needed a new hip since I was 10 years old…

I am very lucky that I have such a high pair tolerance and have learned how to focus on “This Second” to ignore much of the pain I am experiencing during an activity but I ALWAYS suffer for it the next day. Being young I am constantly being told that I must be exaggerating or making excuses to not participate or to stay home…

But I just hate being forced to use crutches to do something as simple as going to the grocery store or walking through a mall. The Mall Trip is the WORST…

No matter how well you know your mall there will ALWAYS be a LOT of walking and that ALWAYS means that I am out of commission for almost the whole next day…

I can’t sit for long, I can’t stand for long, I can’t lay down for long, I wake up every time I move at night, Sex is almost impossible since it is my Hip that hurts and 99% of the activity involves the flexing of the hip joint. I feel as if I am constantly caught in a bear-trap… Chained to my house by my bad hip… And with no insurance I am completely unable to get help for either the hip itself or the pain management. Sigh…

Well, I’m off to attempt to get a full night’s sleep… *Laugh…