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Originally Posted by theking
I take Vicodin and sometimes I use Morphine patches...but I am required to keep the pain level up to be aware of my movements or I could become paralyzed. It purely sucks the big one to be in pain 24/7 with no end to it until death. In addition I can only sit for a limited time...stand for a limited time...walk for a limited time...and sleep for a couple of hours at a time.
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That really sucks man. Luckily for me pain like this has never been a big part of my life. I have had some injuries or odd things (like I got an abscessed tooth once that hurt like hell - oddly enough though that tooth is how I met my girlfriend because she works at the dentist office I went too and I broke the ribs when I fell carrying her groceries in. I joked with her that she does nothing be cause me pain
) but never really long term.
I knew a guy several years ago that had worked on an crab boat in Alaska. He was at sea working and bent over on the main deck to pick something up. A guy on the deck above didn't look below and he dropped a 40 lbs box of frozen fish bait over the rail. It fell 10 feel and landed on his lower back as he was bent over. Fucked him up bad. When I knew him it had been about 6 years after it had happened and he couldn't sit for more than about 30-45 minutes without having to get up and walk around then he couldn't stand and walk around for more than about 30-45 minutes without having to sit. He said it changed his life because he can't even do something like go to the movies because he can't sit in the seat for the two hours the movie is on. If he goes he has to sit on the end of the aisle so he can get up and stand by the wall periodically.