What are the options when the things you like to do are the very things that cause you pain and make it difficult or impossible to live the rest of your life? Case in point: I like to cook, knit, carve, sew, read, write, research. All of those things involve the posture of "head down, hands forward". This posture KILLS me. I get migraines, muscle spasms, inflammation, pain. Screeeeech! That is the sound of my life coming to a halt. I like to walk, dance, play. You name a body part, it will start tightening up or hurting. Sigh. I don't like to exercise or do my PT, but I do them anyway. Oh, guess what? It is insanely easy to cross that line from therapeutic to exacerbating the underlying condition. My recovery rate is an ever-so-slightly-upward-slanting-line of improvement. We're talking years here. Even the things I really hate doing, but have to do anyway, will cause all the same problems. Cleaning, folding clothes, sorting papers, wiping counters. Which is why no one is allowed to enter my house anymore, except for a select few who are in similar states. So, I am left with only a few options that are still easy to do and don't cause me pain. Complain, whine, bitch, rage, snark, snap, whimper. And I am getting really gooooooooooooooooood at those! And another thing that is a problem: being on the computer to long. Which is why I have to cut this sho-
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