I sympathise, I have suffered chronic back pain for about 33 years, started when I was 22. It’s not improving as I age, and now I also suffer neck and shoulder pain, I’ve broken the shoulder (clavicle) twice, and tore the bicep tendons once.
In the last few years I suffer with plantar fasciitis, sometimes I can barely walk, and have been experience lower back pain when I walk, for years. I was using prescription painkillers and anti inflammatory meds, but the side effects were debilitating. Then after 40 years of graft I had saved enough to retire this year. My wife who had lived off me for the last 20, met someone else, who presumably wasn’t in constant pain, and struggling with the side effects of medication. She left me a note, and I’ve kept the house I had before I met her, and some of my pension, she and the solicitors took the rest.
I signed a cheque on Jan 2, and later that day the VP of the company I work for announced they’d be closing the factory in May.
It never rains etc, and I work in the aviation industry, so Covid has pretty much ruined any chance I’ll be able to struggle on.
Ah well, she’s a cunt, and I’m better off on my own than with a selfish cunt…
I’ve cut the pain killers since she left, and I’ve virtually stopped taking the Naproxen anti inflammatory meds. I have to take blood pressure and cholesterol tablets, and I drink more than I should.
Could be worse…a lot worse…
