Carla:
I know exactly what you mean. Humor is the best thing for pain, illness,
stress, you name it! My 13 yo son (looks and acts more like 17) is an amateur
stand-up comic. He keeps me laughing. I have stenosis in my lumbar, sacral,
coccyx, and cervical with deteriorating disks in my thoracic; bulging disks
in my cervical; RA & OA; MS; a breathing problem; etc. etc.
I have my moments when life starts to get to me, usually when my husband
starts panicking, feeling sorry for himself and scared about what will happen to
HIM if something happens to me! UGH. I try to be very patient and
understanding, but he is a lot to take sometimes. He has a bleeding disorder, Hep C
and OA; we both are diabetic. Every time he gets a cut or bumps his toe, he
freaks out that this is it - he’s losing his foot/leg! I have had a black
toe for three months now, and I am sure it will heal…eventually! My father
had a leg amputated a couple years before he died, you’d think I would be the
one worried about that.
I can’t get up from a lying down position, or even a sitting but reclined
position. I get “stuck,” almost paralyzed, and someone has to lift me to
sitting upright. I don’t get to sleep much as a result. When I do sleep, it is
not restful. The pain is always there, excruciating pain. There are days
that I feel so angry and want to lash out from the pain; I just want to be left
alone. I do NOT take it out on my family, yet. I will just keep trying to
find the humor, it’s there, just got to look really hard sometimes.
Anyhow, if it weren’t for laughter and my GLORIOUS son, I would not be
around today, nor would I want to be. Admittedly, sometimes when my son performs,
or we are just sitting together (talking and joking as we do so often) I
have to wear my oxygen because I am laughing so hard. I want LOL, or rather
ROFLMAO, with a giant smiley as my epitaph… my son promised.
Tammy
In a message dated 6/1/2007 9:43:15 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
chronicpain-cpt1939@lists.careplace.com writes:
hear ya…along with severe RA and OA…now spurs on my
spine…discs bulging…just never seems to end eh? I use Humor to get
thru each day…I try to laugh at all my mishaps, keep my kids laughing,
even my Doc thinks I’m nutty 
But it does help…trying to find the
funny side of a bad thing. Pain meds don’t help much, and what little help
is short lived. So I laugh as often and as much as possible 
Next
visit to my RA Doc…gonna wear my Frog shoes hehehe…after 2 +
years…he still doesn’t know how to take me
Carla
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But it does help…trying to find the
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