Whew. I read this:
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/polymyalgia-rheumatica/DS00441/DSECTION=treatments-and-drugs.
It makes so much sense. You've been talking about your shoulder/s for a long time.
Jeez. I hate that you have a new source of pain.
I love that it sounds treatable.
I love that you have an ANSWER, because a diagnosis is a relief. (I hope.)
Many hopes that your docs whack it with all the right stuff and in the right timing
and that you feel relief very soon.
(Then we can go back to sticking you in closets and stuff, to manage the other
pain...)
Also a huge relief that you may not have a bone marrow problem.
WHEW!
Izzy, I have learned more about pain from reading your posts over the years
than from almost anyone I know. Your journey has been awful but also a deep
reminder of how much we take for granted when our lhysical lives are not as challenging
as yours has been.
I just met a writer who writes scholarly books about pain. I thought of you
when I read some of the summaries.
Makes sense to me that at VESMB, where we talk a lot about emotional pain,
one voice is here to show us how arduous it is to deal with the literal pain
of the body. Your pain is from accidents as well as early severe abuse...
and listening to you has taught me a lot that I can't articulate well.
I just know that it doesn't matter to me exactly how a person thinks,
if I'm in their vicinity and they're suffering pain...I wish I could relieve it.
love to you, and soooooooooooo glad for this update...keep them coming!
Hops
