CHRONIC TONIC posts on Thursdays at 9 p.m. EST, it is a place to share stories, advice, and information and to connect with others with chronic health conditions and those who care for them. Our diarists will report on research, alternative treatments, clinical trials, and health insurance issues through personal stories. You are invited to share in comments (and note if you'd like to be a future diarist).
She loved to cook, and knit, and crochet, and to watch all of those Law and Order, NCIS and design and cooking shows. She was the Queen of her Kingdom five years after I was. She loved her husband, and her skittery kitty, Luna, and her family and friends.
She was disabled by intractable pain from horrific back problems, which began as degenerative disk disease, then to a broken back from a child who hit her, and to an unsuccessful back surgery which moved a nerve bundle to a location which meant every time she moved or made a step, it scraped the nerves and sent a shooting pain down her leg.
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