The Pleasure of Meeting Others With Pain

I have received a load of emails recently from others that have chronic pain also. I am just so amazed at the amount of people that apparently have read my blog writings and musings, and been touched enough to write and share their stories with me.


THIS is why I started my blog. To just touch that ONE person in pain, or someone who just was diagnosed with chronic pain or learned of why they are always feeling so lousy. To even learn the reason behind the pain alone is a true blessing, as many have no actual diagnosis, no explanation why they are feeling pain in their body. That is one tough thing to deal with.


As I hear from others in pain, and write back to them; I realize that my mission has been accomplished. I just want to reach the right people! Those that will take something away from my posts and feel (maybe) not so alone. I know that when I met the first person in my life who suffered with daily pain, I felt as if I had made an immediate best friend.


Those that I meet online who share the same issues as me, who I have not met in person, (yet!), 'get' me. They are 'sisters' and 'brothers' in pain with me. We understand each other. We can chat online and immediately know what the other is truly feeling.


It will be one year for me next month that I began blogging. I began this journey on another site on Feb. 22nd, of last year, and moved here in April. I can't believe how time has flown by. Some of the most special people I've ever met in my life have been since starting my blog,and they have become some of my closest online friends. One of them is my "Kindred Spirit". We both knew right off the bat that we shared way too much in common to be anything else but that.


Have you ever heard the saying that, "A person will come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime"? Well these special people that share my daily pain and truly understand it, are now all 3 of these to me. The reason was to let me know that I am not alone...the season will be each and every one that we go through each year, and the lifetime is just that. All of us will not part ways through our lives. We all know it, we share pain, one of the deepest and most alarming sensations to experience in the human body, and we together share the fact that we feel this sensation daily in our bodies.


We are all bound together for life. Whether we ever meet in person, or continue to know each other online thanks to this wonderful newfangled equipment called the computer and the web, those of us that feel this pain are in it together--for a lifetime.


That is all I ever wanted from writing this blog. To touch just one person. Looks like I got lucky!!


I wish you that know what it is like to live life with pain, a low or tolerable pain day and evening. Of course, the goal is to feel no pain. But let's get real...I write in truths, and that is wishful thinking for the majority of chronic pain patients! At least in my case...for it is always there...lurking in the background when it is not the star of my day. I'll take the lurker over the star. Of course, we would all take the NO pain....if it is ever to be found. For an hour, for ten minutes, for a moment. It is so welcome, yet rarely materializes.


And our lives go on, regardless of this familiar entity in our lives called PAIN. We persevere. We move ahead. We work on our goals. We LIVE with the pain. LIVE! And I believe we all do it-- very, very well !!