Life is pain

[Bert Notorius]

All the avoidance tactics that I have developed over the years are only stopgap measures.
In about an hour, the alcohol will provide another stopgap.

G/god it's windy.

Change is coming.

 

[KingOrfeo]

For nearly 20 years now I've been dealing with recurrent pain and cramping in the muscles of my neck, shoulders and upper back, caused by osteoarthritis in the upper vertebrae. In the last couple of years it has grown steadily worse, and almost intractable, however many times I visit the massage therapist or the chiropractor. It never quite leaves me alone. I tried deep-facet injections and they didn't help.

I once saw Paul Harvey do a piece on a book he had read or a documentary he had seen about a leper colony, focusing on how the disease makes lepers insensate to pain, so that they might, for instance, get burned by a cigarette without noticing it had burned down to their fingers, and many incidents like that. At the end he concluded, "You too would say, 'Thank God for pain!'"

God bless you, Mr. Harvey.

Physical pain is the clearest proof there is that God is either nonexistent, indifferent, or cruel. I don't mean the pain that serves as a vital warning of danger, I mean the pain you can't do anything about. Pain that goes on and on no matter how many analgesics or opiates you take. (Can't take opiates either, they make you constipated and I've also suffered intermittently from irritable bowel syndrome, hospitalized for it once. Can't even drink any more, it was giving me an enlarged liver.)

Pain sux.

 

[semen4her]

If life is too painful for you when you try to tie your shoes...wait...can you reach your feet?

 

[Bert Notorius]

Dickinson

 

[Bert Notorius]

5 more minutes

 

[Bert Notorius]

Into My Arms

 

[Bert Notorius]

Red House

 

[atmas]

The Four Noble Truths

1. Life is suffering;

2. Suffering is due to attachment;

3. Attachment can be overcome;

4. There is a path for accomplishing this.


This is the foundation of Buddhism.

 

[Noor]

"Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something."

sometimes I wish I drank... Most opiates don't work on me. I am used to being in a fair amount of pain 24/7 but lately my neck is so bad I can't lie down comfortably with a pillow... It sucks.

Strangely what works in the middle of the night when it peaks is a cup of chocolate, almond milk, microwave moist heating pad, a game of online backgammon and liquid ibuprofen softgels. After a bit I can go back to sleep and sleep longer.

 

[Noor]

The Four Noble Truths

1. Life is suffering;

2. Suffering is due to attachment;

3. Attachment can be overcome;

4. There is a path for accomplishing this.


This is the foundation of Buddhism.

and then there are broken necks...

 

[CuChuliann]

It is posts like this that make me thanks the gods I am married to a chiropractor

 

[Bert Notorius]

It is posts like this that make me thanks the gods I am married to a chiropractor

Relief is fleeting. That will be 100 bucks.

 

[CuChuliann]

More like 160k, but she Is an amazing healer, and when I actually follow her advice it usually lasts quite awhile

 

[Bert Notorius]

More like 160k, but she Isis an amazing healer, and when I actually follow her advice it usually lasts quite awhile

She is a long dead Egyptian deity?

Great catch.

 

[CuChuliann]

Hehe, she a Goddess, but not that specific one. Damn autocorrect!

 

[Bert Notorius]

Hehe, she a Goddess, but not that specific one. Damn autocorrect!

Freudian....

 

[CuChuliann]

More likely defeated by technology...to paraphrase Romaro from Dawn of the dead

Who could misspell with this? The asshole who could afford it...

 

[Bert Notorius]

Mispelling can be used to catch you opponebt off guard.

 

[CuChuliann]

I see what you did there

 

[Bert Notorius]

my face is numb.

 

[CuChuliann]

Sorry brother, have you tried acupuncture? I am not a believer, and yet it works miracles for me.

 

[Bert Notorius]

no. just booze.

 

[CuChuliann]

As long as it works for ya!

 

[Bert Notorius]

there is only one permanent solution...alcohol.

 

[CuChuliann]

The liver is evil, and it must be punished