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From: cas@mtdcb.att.com (Cliff Stevens)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: Chronic Pain!
Summary: I'm sorry.
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Date: 27 Nov 90 20:45:32 GMT
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Index Number: 11975

In article <15874@bunker.UUCP>, jqtaylor@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (John
Quill Taylor) writes:
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| In Index Number 11853, cas@mtdcb.att.com (Cliff Stevens) writes:
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| >I finally think I have an idea of what chronic pain really is like!
| >I had a bad cough from a cold and I coughed so much, so hard, I
| >strained some muscles in my R shoulder, back, and neck.  Now due to
| >this I was in constant pain.  Not terrible, I could live without
| >pain killers, but I never felt like doing anything!
| >
| >It was depressing, not only from the pain, but also from the fact I
| >never did anything because I never felt like it!
| 
| You have felt the *physical* aspects of chronic pain, indeed; now,
| endure it at random moments for twenty years of your life, and then
| you shall know the *psychological* aspects of chronic pain. -JQT

I'm sorry, I guess I didn't express myself very well, but what I meant 
was that this exposed me to the psychological aspects of the problem.
I don't think I claimed that the pain physically caused me any problems,
but it did psychologically! 
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Survivor! (As the National Head Injury Foundation calls us.)
	Cliff Stevens	MT1E228  att!cbnewsj!ncas  (908)671-7292