When I started this BLOG, my goal was to write in it everyday. As my fellow pain sufferers know sometimes we are over zealous with our goals and forget we may be knocked down with pain. This week I also have a sinus infection. Another one of those times it feels like nothing can go right, or at least ½ right. I am sure all of you feel like this from time to time. Luckily, I haven’t been sick in a year, I owe that to Juice +. I will have to share that another day, as I believe all chronic pain sufferers could benefit. I used to be sick every month due to my low immunity from Chronic Pain. Juice + changed that.
Today, I felt in a downward spiral, so I started to do some research to take my mind off things and hopefully in the process cheer myself up. Pain is just life now and life is pain. I still intend to enjoy it. I found this great article on how back pain shrivels your brain at an alarming rate. I had to laugh! Can I catch a break anywhere? Now my brain is shriveling too! Hey, what did I just read? Why am I typing, I’m confused? JUST KIDDING!
When I did something less than genius, I used to say, “It must be the bottled blonde seeping through my scalp!” I never had the science to back that up, but now I have the science in hand to say, “Sorry, my brain is shriveling”. ( :
They say in the article that the brain of a chronic back pain sufferer ages 20 times faster than that of a healthy brain. I know you are wondering what the cause is, as I was. The cause is the depression and sadness stemmed from the losses incurred due to pain. So that’s easy to fix, just be cheery all the time and this shouldn’t happen! Yeah right, that is probably what many of our healthy counterparts would tell us to do. While I believe we can “Reach Beyond the Pain” and be cheery a lot of the time. I realize it isn’t easy and some days you just need to give yourself a break and throw the biggest Pity Party Bash your house has seen. I personally suggest, fun PJ’s, lots of coco or other chocolate and soap operas. But the next day, you have to do your best to reach again!
So keep laughing and smiling! It isn’t so bad, right? God wouldn’t give us anything we couldn’t handle. We are probably smarter than the average person to start with so who cares if our brains shrink faster. I know one thing for sure! God made us super tough to handle what we are going through. We are special and that is definitely something to smile about.
http://ezinearticles.com/?Got-Back-Pain?&id=199753 If you would like to check the article out. Who knows? The extra reading might slow down the brain shrivel.
Hope your pain level is low today!!!!
Karen
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