Hello everyone!
I've been thinking a lot about how I feel whenever I admit to someone I have a disability when I get asked the dreaded "What do you do for a living?". It's caused many panic attacks, and I almost always have someone either look at me like I'm a liar, or hear a quip like, "You don't look sick!". Even worse are the people who try to sell me miracle cures. "My aunt saw this herb on the internet that will take your pain away completely!" That is sometimes, more cutting than the prior two things.
When you tell someone who's sick to take some miracle herb, drug, or some weird exercise, it pretty much tells them that they don't know what they're doing. That all the doctors they've been to and all the money they've spent on medication is for nothing. Besides, I won't get into the dangers of herbal medicine here. Anyway, no one knows how frustrating it is to go through chronic pain unless they have it. No one knows how many countless strangers and people they know suggest the most random of random things to do or use in place of medications that their doctors who have studied for half of their lives about your disease and others and have seen that works with other patients. Also, YES, I HAVE TRIED CANNABIS. It doesn't help my pain.
Anyway, a friend of mine posted this on Facebook, and it rings so true. I'd appreciate if you'd read it to get some knowledge on what people suffering from chronic pain go through.
In other news, I will be up in Denver on Sunday flyering my little heart out for the Blackheart Burlesque 4/20 weekend show.
If you're in Denver or anywhere in Colorado and not there, you are a horrible person. š
I hope you all have a great day!
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