My Emotional and Physical Pain Has Kept Me From Living a Normal Life
I don’t agree with the tale that life gives you only what you can handle.
I’ve been struggling with severe chronic pain for the past couple of years, and it’s finally taken its toll on me within the past two weeks to where I can’t get comfortable. I’ve been popping oxycodone like nobody’s business, just to try to feel more comfortable.
Why? Why am I now in agonizing pain and at the end of my rope? I’ve lived with chronic pain for over twenty years, and I haven’t let it stop me before. Why now?
Well, I had knee replacement surgery two weeks ago. I’ve had a lot of pain and surgeries in my life, but I’ve met my match with this one.
Due to a shortage of operating rooms and medical staff, I had to wait for seven months to have knee replacement surgery. In the meantime, my knee degenerated to the point where I couldn’t bend or straighten it, and every step was agony for me.
But this knee surgery is only one thing on a long list of what I’ve been through physically and emotionally in the past couple of years.
