It has been a bit since my last post. I have had a rough couple of days and I am trying not to write this from a place with overwhelming pain. I am trying to stay positive in this space, while still addressing the negative and when I am bad, I tend to see through black coloured glasses rather than rose. On to this post…

This post will bring me up to actually getting my spine fused, exactly one year and one week from my injury…

After making the decision to go for surgery,...

This post is going to focus on my steady decline after the most hellish night I have ever had. Read on…

Some night at the beginning of June I woke up drenched with sweat and shaking violently. I had an unavoidable need to vomit, but it hurt my head to just open my eyes. At this time, I had no idea what was wrong with me, but I felt more horrible than I ever had. It wasn’t just the nausea, my body ached, my head ached and my back pain was excruciating. Soon, I realized I hadn’t taken...

Hi again! This blog is going to try to chronicle the extremely turbulent time that followed my diagnosis. By this time, I had tons of questions and, if I am completely honest, I didn’t really understand what exactly was wrong with me those first few months. I started physio mid-March and slowly and painfully I learned the physiological and kinesthetic reasons for my pain.

I am going to try to go back about thirteen months to the beginning of my first ’recovery’, but first I thought...

Welcome to my Blog! Hopefully you enjoy your time here, it is definitely my goal to make my blog inspiring, rather than depressing, so I can start thinking about my life in inspiring, rather than depressing, terms. It may be an old and un-flashy method of growing, but I still think that I need to change my thoughts and perspective before I can change my life or lifestyle. Enough of that for now, I would like to introduce you to the last couple of years of my life and in turn parts of me.
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This is my letter to those who don’t understand chronic pain. I know you will never read this, but I have to get this off my chest.

I’ve had chronic pain in my left hip and leg and lower back for the past 7 years. I am not a hypochondriac, I am not a head case, I am not imagining this. So please don’t judge me.

Being sick and in pain does not mean that I’m not human, I am very much so a human, just one that suffers. And just because I am happy some days does not mean...