Living With Chronic Pain and Depression

I live in Florida and we just had a hurricane go through, Irma. Luckily I am in the panhandle so all we got was a tropical storm in our area. Some wind, some rain, and a dent in the van where a b...

http://ravenpain.blogspot.com/2017/09/day-in-life.html

Constant pain makes every day a lot harder than it should be. It makes every task take more energy, time, and effort than it should. Yet those of us who live with constant pain do our best, ever...

http://ravenpain.blogspot.com/2014/05/cranky.html

While lost in that darkness you lose yourself and your life, which includes everything you normally enjoy. You stop caring about those things, doing them feels empty or like it takes too much eff...

http://ravenpain.blogspot.com/2014/04/discovering-whats-missing.html

Past words echo in my mind..words spoken, heartfelt and believed at the time…yet uneducated, naive words. Life, as always, is a hard teacher sometimes. I remember saying “You’re either sui...

http://ravenpain.blogspot.com/2014/04/thoughts-on-depression.html

This is basically a copy/paste of what I posted on my stitching blog to let stitchy friends know where I've been. However, this post is more "on topic" in this blog. I feel bad (Lazy etc) just co...

http://ravenpain.blogspot.com/2013/08/where-am-i.html

I'm not sure how good this is, but I got bit by the need to write about 10 minutes ago (it is 9:01 AM, 1/22/13). So I opened a word document and started. After a bit of tweaking this is what cam...

http://ravenpain.blogspot.com/2013/01/new-poems.html

The worst part of living with chronic pain, is not the physical pain, nor the psychological pain that comes with it. It is the knowledge that every day a tiny piece of your heart and soul are de...

http://ravenpain.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-voracious-beast-of-pain_13.html

I wrote three poems the other night, one after the other. They're written on the back of envelopes because when the need to write them hit, it was extremely urgent and didn't want to wait until I...

http://ravenpain.blogspot.com/2013/01/poems-from-pain.html

Thanks to it being more difficult for me to sit up for long periods of time, I decided to start doing video blogs (Vlogs) on You Tube. I did a group of videos that basically give my history of ch...

http://ravenpain.blogspot.com/2012/07/video-blogs-on-youtube.html

Many chronic pain patients are on different medications. Some are for the pain and others are for the condition(s) that is/are causing the pain and or depression. Many of these medications can b...

http://ravenpain.blogspot.com/2012/07/taking-proper-care-of-prescription.html

People who live with and suffer from chronic pain and chronic illnesses often hear different statements. Some are intended to be helpful and kind. Others are meant the opposite way, often it seem...

http://ravenpain.blogspot.com/2012/06/what-not-to-say.html

I am continuing to read the book The Chronic Pain Care Workbook" by Michael J. Lewandowski, PH.D. It looks like there is going to be a lot of record taking. Tracking pain levels through the da...

http://ravenpain.blogspot.com/2012/04/more-reading-and-thoughts.html

For the last 18 months, and probably longer, my pain has been in control of my life not the other way around. When my pain got worse a few years ago I adapted and still managed to function. When ...

http://ravenpain.blogspot.com/2012/04/taking-stock-in-attempt-to-change.html

Living with chronic pain is extremely difficult. With new research have come new ideas and understanding about how pain works. Sadly physicians, people in general, medical personnel etc. are stil...

http://ravenpain.blogspot.com/2012/04/cartesian-model-and-gate-control-model.html

Well it is already April of 2012. Get a little older and time goes by so much faster, at least it seems to anyway. Ron had to go to Indiana for a funeral and I could not go with him for a few dif...

http://ravenpain.blogspot.com/2012/04/new-month.html

This was written at 5:10AM on March 25, 2012 in my written journal. I was having great difficulty sleeping as usual and my mind was running with thoughts. I wanted to post on here but didn't want...

http://ravenpain.blogspot.com/2012/03/how-do-you-deal-with-this.html

On other blogs I have seen comment sections that allow people to post a response to a specific comment. The replies are indented and show up underneath the comment they are responding to. This al...

http://ravenpain.blogspot.com/2012/03/test.html

I wasn't expecting the oncologist to do much, but boy did they make me nervous! He is a radiation oncologist so he doesn't do much (if anything, I'm not 100% sure though) with patients until they...

http://ravenpain.blogspot.com/2012/03/oncologist-visit.html

I put a call in yesterday (Friday) to the oncologist I saw back in 2010 after the biopsy results came back. I wanted to be sure that I had the right information about Phyllodes tumors and that ev...

http://ravenpain.blogspot.com/2012/03/return-call-from-oncologist.html

Can I just hide behind the sofa now? If you read my entry for Tuesday, where I talked about my doctor's appointment on Monday you'll know that when I asked my doctor about the cat scan result...

http://ravenpain.blogspot.com/2012/03/scared-cancer-recurrence.html

Yesterday was my pain management doctor's appointment and since Ron (my husband) was home he went with me. When the doctor finally came into the room it started out as usual, him not really looki...

http://ravenpain.blogspot.com/2012/03/yesterdays-doctors-visit.html

This is a great article on how chronic pain is treated through "pain management". In my state, as I've posted before, things have gotten even worse. Read this page carefully: Painopoly written ...

http://ravenpain.blogspot.com/2012/03/cycle-of-chronic-pain-patient.html

These new laws in Florida are having a major impact upon legitimate patients who need pain medications for real illnesses and injuries such as cancer, lyme disease, elher's danlos, severe damage ...

http://ravenpain.blogspot.com/2012/02/interesting-information-re-war-on.html

Florida has become even worse for a chronic pain patient. So far removing our rights to privacy of our medical records, insisting on drug testing, telling us which pharmacies we can go to, primar...

http://ravenpain.blogspot.com/2012/02/florida-gets-worse-for-chronic-pain.html

My eldest niece has come to live with us. She is 17 and a wonderful girl. Last night we needed to go to the store because she needed some clothes for school that meet the uniform based dress co...

http://ravenpain.blogspot.com/2012/02/good-loss-of-pride.html