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« Last post by Hopalong on May 21, 2026, 10:34:20 AM »
Permanent pain is hell to live with and also has so much mythology about purification, by which I mean hogwash, around it.
Someone was telling me yesterday that a "new" treatment for severe spinal arthritis pain is actually radiation. I suppose that makes sense, since they can pinpoint any area and reach it without scalpels or damage to other tissue. (If I understood it right, which is always debatable.)
B. must be feeling like that Joe Bltssfyk guy in the old comic. Can't blame him but it's good you model resistance against "always" thinking. My sculptor exH2 was hit head on by a drunk driver on his way to the Art Institute of Chicago with a full load of pieces for a show without a seat belt because he was too manly to need one....had the kind of build-a-back surgery that left him with permanent intense pain. Titanium rods, countless plates and screws, slices of his own ribs and hip grafted around parts of the spinal column, etc. She, the driver, wasn't hurt badly but he's lived with all the consequences and his recovery sounded like torture. Your B's pain story reminds me so much of him. Ex2's scarred back is a 3-D topo map of what he went through...I don't think implant pumps were available to him then. I'd love to introduce those two for a pain bros talk. It's got to be hell sometimes, for both of you.
[Adding gold, pink and salmon light to the cloud above your ride....]
hugs
Hops
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