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Sharing this from my main timeline. A heartfelt apology to all. I'll go away quietly now.
Pab Sungenis
Right now I just want the pain to stop. My leg and back are killing me. I can't sleep. And while Advil might help the back no painkiller in the world can help with the leg.
For those who don't know, the main nerve running down into my left leg was damaged during the first of my three operations for diverticulitis in 2007. (I went into the hospital on my birthday, which is one if the reasons I no longer celebrate it.)
The damage left me with a condition called Meralgia paraesthetica, and cannot be reversed. The pain has come and gone for the past six years and lately it has come a lot more than it has gone.
If my leg isn't in exactly the right position the damaged parts of the nerve fire randomly. For an idea of what it feels like, imagine a very bad sunburn. From my thigh to my knee, that's what it feels like.
As I said, no painkiller can help. Even when I was on dilaudid in the hospital I could feel it. (But as I was on dilaudid I didn't give a shit.)
It's really only in the last year and a half that it has become debilitating. I can't walk up or down steps like I used to. (Down is actually worse than up.) Sitting for more than a few minutes gets uncomfortable. And as you can see by this time stamp, many nights I can't sleep.
If I am short with you nowadays just ask if I'm in pain. Odds are I am and don't realize I am taking it out on you.
God, I just want it to go away.
I didn't know much about his posting history but he seemed to get in heated back and forths with other posters. The internet isn't worth that kind of emotion. I think it would be nice if posters like him, were throttled to two or three posts a day for a month or so until they regain perspective, rather than expel them from the group categorized/labeled after so many posts.... Misogynist.
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