Through the month of September is a very personal thing happening. The month is dedicated every year to help bring awareness to a very much mis-understood disease, Chronic Pain (C/P). Chronic Pain has finally been inducted by the American Medical Association as a disease, with its own diagnostic code even though it encompasses multiple over-lapping conditions and diseases. Yet this has changed little for the person living it.
As a woman and an advocate who has lived with C/P for almost 29 years I have seen little to no improvements in treatment modalities or the culture. This goes straight up the line to the actual very people who are supposed to help us. The physicians. I have been met with indifference,, rudeness, discrimination, and out right cruelty over the years. And yet the very nature of this disease requires that we endure these kinds of attitudes & treatments or we risk losing all…
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Why of course Tracy. It’s a passion because I live it. how could I not be pro-active for myself and bring others along as I do so. I have written on this topic for 28 yrs,. posting online 15. It’s alarming to me that we stll have so far to go. That we have taken steps backwards instead of the goals for moving forward.
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I would guess that more than 75% of my readers have conditions that bring chronic pain. Even if you are not affected, please remember those who are in your hearts and minds. Thanks!