I will be the first one to admit I don’t know what it is like to have a flare suddenly hit you and debilitate you. Or to randomly have insomnia hit you unexpectedly where you can’t stop thinking or the pain is too much.
I don’t remember what any of that is like. Because my chronic pain really is chronic. 24/7, level-10 pain. And when I say level 10, I don’t mean the rubbish one-to-ten scale the doctors use.
I am talking level 50, you can’t stop sobbing the pain is so much. But yet, even then, I still live each day. I still smile at my family and laugh at truly funny things.
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