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I have a new name for pain. What’s that? The Obliterator. Because when you’re in pain, nothing else can exist. Not thought. Not emotion. Only the drive to escape the pain. When it’s strong enough, the Obliterator strips us of everything that makes us who we are, until we’re reduced to creatures less than animals, creatures with a single desire and goal: escape. A good name, then
Christopher Paolini
Spoonie fantasy #2002
Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes
George Orwell
When someone offers you advice you never asked for.....
For all those who think that our disability checks are some sort of hand out or a free ride. I am here to set the record straight. I had worked for 20 years before I was classified as disabled. I had a great job and was on my way up at my place of employment. I now am forced to live on about 25% of what I was making before. I have had to make hard choices about my living conditions, choices I should never have to make:
· I have to decide if I should get my medications or food.
· I have to decide if I can afford to do tests and procedures that my doctors order.
· I have to decide if I can afford to go into the hospital.
· If I have two doctor’s appointment, I have to choose which one is more urgent.
· I have to decide if I can afford simple things like clothes and shoes.
· I have to decide if I can pay my mortgage.
· I have to decide if I can pay my light bill.
· I have to decide if I can buy my kids a birthday present or a Christmas present.
Believe me when I say that for someone who is used to paying their own way it is a humiliating walk of shame that I maneuver every day. So if anyone thinks this is a free ride, you are dead wrong. The majority of us would rather be working than crying over a light bill each month.
