Newness

In my last post about two weeks ago, I was dealing with depression of my own and seeing so much sorrow throughout the RSD community, as well.  Since that time, I have felt your prayers and support take the edge off my own circumstance and I have also seen some new and good things happening within the RSD community; things like the 2nd Annual Hope Over Pain CRPS/RSD Awareness & Research Cookbook get underway, the creation of an RSD comic book, the creation of a magazine, the one year anniversary of Joseph Aquilino's blogtalkradio shows and other awareness projects.  To make a play on words, this gives me "hope over pain".  Thanks for all your prayers and support.  May we all experience grace in our circumstance.  God bless.

I don't know if blogging at this time is a good idea as I'm not really in a positive state but there is always positive in anything, if we just shift our focus. So I will endeavor to do that, to shift my focus. I feel depressed right now, for many reasons. Partly, because I haven't gotten back on my meds since the sickness at the first of the year. I keep trying to but they are affecting me adversely, so I'm at a standstill, more-or-less. Also,I think I was unprepared for the progression of the disease and how encompassing it is.I think I've come to see that pain albeit horrific is just part of it. Trouble swallowing, vision loss, muscle atrophy and so much more are new dimensions to deal with. We are all capable of getting depressed, and facing these emotions head-on is actually healthy/therapeutic, but staying in the depression is not healthy.I see such despair in the pain community right now; much more than usual. And I'm here to ask that we would be earnestly praying for each other I know that I fare better when I look at the Lord instead of the circumstance. I pray that when we walk through the fire we would not be burned...Isaiah 43:2
Love to all who are fighting this battle.
Jane G.