Too Much Pain To Sit Or Stand

During the past few months, I’ve been trying to do more, in spite of the pain I live with daily.

Today, however, the pain forced me to do less. I can’t sit without feeling piercing pain through the right side of my pelvis from where a huge cyst was surgically removed almost four years ago, after I’d lived under the shroud of a misdiagnosis for two years. I also can’t stand without that same piercing pain shooting up and down my right leg and through my right hip.

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Away From Home and Enjoying Outside

Because of my illness, for the last six years I’ve spent most of my time indoors, even during beautiful summer days. Some days, it’s hard to move around to do the most basic tasks, when you’re in pain. ALL. THE. TIME. However, so far this summer, I’ve had the chance to spend time away from home and outside enjoying sunshine and fresh air; and I am beyond grateful for the opportunities to do this.

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Laughing In Flowers

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“The earth laughs in flowers”
        – Ralph Waldo Emerson,
            Poet and Philosopher

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