I am going through a life transition and am feeling sad about one part of my life ending and want music to reflect that. I would prefer something somber and thought provoking and also about accepting this new phase in life.
Looking for songs about time, specifically, about the loss of the demarcation of time similar to DJ Shadow’s sonf Six Days.
I wanted to ask folks who are in wheelchairs about training for sports. I haven’t been In a chair in a while and every year there is a foot race at a club I belong to. Now that I have a chair I am thinking about entering the race. The only thing is is that the total distance is 7 miles and I was wondering if anyone had any tips for training. I would be using a regular sports chair and not a specialized chair for track where your legs extend out in front of you. Any advice is welcome as to how to approach this or if it a terrible idea in the first place. Thanks!
Violence isn’t the answer but sometimes it’s a question and the answer is yes
I’m looking for songs about people not respecting your money and saying no to that.
I have bad osteoarthritis in my hip and need the joint replaced ideally. However, I also have an incomplete spinal cord injury so there is considerable dysplasia in the hip due to atrophy in the muscles around my hip. The surgeon said a hip replacement would be difficult to perform and I am having a hard time making a decision about whether to get the hip replacement or not. I currently cannot stand on the affected leg so I use a walker to hop on one foot to get around. The pain because of the worn out joint is very bad. The surgeon said there is a 10-15 percent chance of failure and that he might injure nerves and blood vessels during the procedure. I am in the process of getting a second opinion and also I would like to see what other people think. I am honestly very scared and feel unable to make a decision. He said no matter what I would need a walking aid but didn’t specify what kind. Any input would be greatly appreciated.
I go to a somewhat large health center and they have mismanaged my care on two occasions in the last few years. Once was a misdiagnoses of a rare disease and I did complain to Medicare about that doctor. Since she was an intern and moving on from the medical center and practice I feel like I won’t be retaliated against or dismissed for complaining. This time their orthopedic department did not treat a progressive arthritis in my hip and sent me to pain management instead. That led me to need a very complex hip replacement. I am a mad that this is the second time I have been mistreated at this medical center. I know if you complain you will most likely not be able to receive services at the same medical center and complaints rarely go anywhere anyway. I guess in my position what would you do. I doubt I really have the grounds to sue and I am not even sure I want to take that on but what middle ground if any do you suggest?
I have to make a decision about surgery and it seems none of the outcomes will be good. If I choose the surgery I will most likely not recovery fully and loose the ability to walk independently. If I avoid surgery I am bound to be in extreme pain without much relief. I don’t want to decide but also the way I am living now is untenable. I want to just flip a coin honestly.
Looking for a good orthopedic surgeon for a hip replacement. I am looking for anyone in the Bay Area including Stanford. My injury is not straight forward so someone who is very experienced and would take on a difficult case. Thank you in advance.
I cannot get a hip replacement due to my spinal cord injury. I mean I could opt to do that but the surgeon was pretty clear I could not expect a good outcome from the surgery due to the complexity. I feel so upset. The hospital system instead of treating me through ortho sent me to pain management who hasn’t done much to help and allowed my joint to erode. I am really not sure where to go from here. I guess physical medicine will get involved after the fact and possibly pt but it seems my problem is intractable and I will have to live like this for the rest of my life. I am in my early 40s and honestly I am not sure how much longer I can hold on.
I have been treated for unknown hip pain by pain management for a couple of years now after ortho said it wasn’t a problem in my hip joint even though I tore my labrum years ago. I have recently had a sudden decline in mobility and finally got a hip x-ray because I fell. Due to getting imaging I now know I have next to no cartilage left in my hip and now will need a hip replacement. I was diagnosed by pain medicine as having psychosomatic pain but clearly there is a physical basis for my pain. I cannot express how angry I am at the doctors and the hospital system for misdiagnosing me and essentially gaslighting me for years about it. I hate having another overarching diagnosis because no matter what symptoms I am experiencing they will always point to that as the cause.
I want to make a playlist about pain starting with Taste the Pain by RHCP. All suggestions welcome!
I am in pain and can’t sit in the salon chair. My hair is the longest it has ever been and looks unkempt. I would give anything to have this one thing it just hurts too much to do it.
I went back to urgent care today in tears because my pain has been continually increasing and it turns out I have arthritis. All of my doctors were falsely attributing my pain to my other diagnoses and I have been suffering for months because they didn’t get it right. I am so pissed. I feel so mad that they made me go through so much bullshit. I hope I finally get the care I need but I trust every doctor as far as I can throw them and this means I have to go back to a doctor I really really dislike for help.
I was trying to explain to my friends the limitations of pain management and that their sole purpose is to keep drugs out of our hands. I’ve recently been having worse pain symptoms and had been offered Botox by another provider even though I’ve already tried it and it failed for pain by my pain management doctor. Also I get Botox injections to control my bladder and there is a maximum amount that can be injected into you or you risk developing antibodies to the Botox. I have a pain management appointment coming up and my friend is incredulous that they probably won’t be offering anything but Botox or a baclofen pump. I feel annoyed that to have dealt with this for years and no one believes how badly we are treated. I am already expecting my doctor to abandon me but it will be better in front of an audience I guess and at least my friend will get to see first hand how things are. I just feel weary and ready for the inevitable but I wish this infantilization would stop.
I have a couple of serious conditions and after having a stroke this January it has made my pain and disability an order of magnitude worse. a friend offered to by me a book about coping with pain written by a psychologist. I flatly refused the book because I feel like there is this woo woo movement in medicine to just think past your pain when what you actually need is treatment and they will do everything to avoid giving you good evidence based treatment because I think deep down they all think pain patients are faking. I feel like a science experiment and not a successful one. I hate the rhetoric of just coping with it without adequate treatment. The truth is that if it were a doctor’s loved one they would never treat them like they treat us. Thank you if you’ve read this far. Thanks for coming to my Ted talk.
I had a very traumatic time in my early teens because I was misdiagnosed in the ER and later at the same ER another woman was also misdiagnosed with a rare blood disease that required he to have both legs and arms amputated at the elbows and knees. We ended up in the same inpatient rehab center together. I lately have been thinking about her a lot. I have had another health crisis and I cannot stop thinking about this woman and wondering what happened to her. I feel weird even admitting that something I witnessed so long ago still affects me but it comes up every now and again and I cry so hard and it feels so silly because really it has nothing to do with me but I still feel deeply affected by it.
it’s not like lift was perfect before but after my stroke I cannot engage in any of the activities I used to do on a regular basis. I just feel like my life as I know it is over and that I don’t believe I will experience anything good again on my own for the rest of my life. It’s so painful to sit with and admit. I cannot do 30 more years of this terrible quality of life. I’m tired of it. The majority of times I leave the house is to see medical professionals and that is not life affirming or fun at all.
Looking for songs about making hard decision. I would prefer if the subject matter wasn’t about romantic entanglement but was more generally about this is what I am going to do I and I won’t be deterred.
I hate the silent treatment. Avoidant people are so shitty. It really doesn’t take too much effort to say that you didn’t like something or no longer wish to associate with someone. Why do I attract such fucking cowards.