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- Observations From the Pain Clinic
[Health-and-Fitness:Pain-Management] It is a welcome distraction, which is an important component to pain management, to finally reach out to you. I've been almost four weeks out of touch, and many of you who have wished kind thoughts for me may wonder what this clinic is about. I'll post many observations and thoughts that I've been saving in a notebook. I hope these will be helpful.
- Mental Fitness, Come Back - Ten Obsevations
[Health-and-Fitness:Pain-Management] Ten obsevations from a man whose body forces a state of chronic pain upon him.
- Obey the Caution Signs and Avoid a Bad Back
[Health-and-Fitness:Back-Pain] These are 10 warning signs I ignored; now I suffer from a chronic, life-long spinal condition.
- A Train Wreck from Here to There
[Self-Improvement:Inspirational] A man finds courage to endure chronic pain in the lineage of his children.
- Weaning from Pain Meds - This Really Hurts
[Health-and-Fitness:Pain-Management] Stopping the use of an addictive drug is extremely painful and difficult. Often it's necessary.
- Work: What Do You Want From Life?
[Business:Careers-Employment] Even the disabled are sometimes allowed to work without losing benefits. Here's how to pick the perfect job for you?
- Morning Prayer With a Marine, Semper Fi
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] A Deacon at my parish prays with me every morning. Together we learn what "Thy will be done..." means.
- A New England Chilhood - The Paper Route
[Self-Improvement:Happiness] A boy's memory of his paper route.
- A New England Childhood - A Great Kid
[Arts-and-Entertainment] Early childhood was a formative time; a time we learned loyalty and trust from our neighborhood pals.
- A New England Childhood - A Story In Fragments
[Self-Improvement:Happiness] My childhood in the 1960's in New England was a time of great change - social upheaval occurred around us - as children we were protected by our parents from radical change, until that goal became impossible to meet.
- I'm Praying as Fast as I Can
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] Is prayer always an act of will or is it possible to offer prayer to to God unconsciously? Intentionality is not necessarily an intentional act. Small acts of selfless gratitude may be highly personal petitions to the glory of God.
- New Item For Sale: Crip Tire Irons
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Humor] I swear, never, ever in my life did I park in a handicapped spot, until I became handicapped, and got the plates. Never, NOT ONCE.
- It's Not Me - I'm My Brother
[Self-Improvement:Inspirational] Chronic pain can lead to a path unto despair without faith in God.
- Man Smart, Woman Smarter
[Self-Improvement] It is a slow difficult trek back to an ordinary life in all of it's aspects when you've been diagnosed with a permanently crippling spinal disorder. The victims often include not just ones self, but our loved ones, too.
- Malcolm Muggeridge Chooses Life or Death
[Self-Improvement:Inspirational] A true story: who would you save if you could only save one? Your son or his friend?
- The Pain Scale - Before and After Science
[Health-and-Fitness:Back-Pain] Which hurts more: a Ford F-350 loaded with manure running over your foot or taking a muffin tin out of the oven barehanded?
- Have You Selected the Soundtrack For Your Own Funeral?
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Humor] The odd thing that happens when we see ourselves at the center of the universe, or why create when a cliche will do the job?
- A Content Man Already Has What He Wants
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] God gives us all we need to find contentment where others might find despair.
- There is No Drug for "Loss of Funtion" - Part II
[Health-and-Fitness:Pain-Management] Back surgery is often a losing proposition if you suffer chronic pain due to disk problems. When things go bad, they go really bad, sometimes permanently disabling you with a lifetime of severe pain requiring strong narcotics just to get through a day.
- There Is No Drug For 'Loss Of Function' - Part I
[Health-and-Fitness:Pain-Management] A habit from my days as a college athlete becomes destructive to my mental health. Recovery is an unlikely outcome for people with Arachnoiditis - a life sentence of pain and deteriorating physical capabilities. I attempt to prove this wrong by pushing beyond my physical limits at the Rehab hospital.
- A Fearful Moral Inventory
[Health-and-Fitness:Back-Pain] Rebuilding a new life after disabling surgical outcomes often requires looking back at those times, good and bad, from the past and fully examining those feelings and actions that can become a part of one's new life. This is an example of one of those incidents.
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