Generally speaking, pain doesn’t like cold weather – everything tends to hurt more which means I need to find ways to stay warm. It’s easy to cover up with coats, hats, gloves, and warm socks, but what about my face? It’s open to the elements. Whether you live with or without facial pain, nobody can like their face being freezing cold to the point of numbness. How can you protect your face from cold weather?
Category: Life
Awareness
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How to Help People Understand Your Pain
Pain is personal, isn’t it? Two people who live with the same condition experience it differently. That doesn’t stop them from understanding the pain they each live with. In support groups, people really do understand how the pain affects you. But do other people? Is it possible to help people understand the pain?
After I published this post this post to explain what trigeminal neuralgia feels like, someone told me that nobody understands the condition, so there’s no point in even trying to explain it.
Back Pain & Scoliosis
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Jokes About Disabled People Are Not Funny
I like to think I have a sense of humour. Most days I laugh about something. I even laugh at myself and my disability. But I would never laugh at or make fun of other people’s disabilities. But comedians, and even some well-known politicians, have cruelly poked fun and made…
Emotional & Mental Health
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Why is Appearance so Important to People?
Everyone is different. For some people, appearance is so important. But for others, it really doesn’t mean anything at all. Since I don’t go out much, I tend to wear comfortable clothes like leggings, tee shirts and hoodies nearly all the time. I don’t give the mirror a second glance….
Chronic Pain
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Living with Pain or Illness – Life in the Slow Lane
Living with chronic pain or any type of chronic illness can often be like living life in the slow lane. My life is certainly like that. There are two speeds in my life – slow or very slow. I know that I’m simply not fit for a different type of…
Chronic Pain
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Chronic Pain is Unpredictable, Just Like Scottish Weather
Throughout Scotland, the weather can be fairly unpredictable and often I describe living with chronic pain in the same way. Unpredictable Scottish Weather Spring is upon us. At least, it should be. I live in the hills of the Scottish Borders and because we sit quite high (1150 feet above…
Back Pain & Scoliosis
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Ill Health Retirement After Years of Struggling to Work
Very often, people with ill health or disability struggle to work and have to face early retirement. It’s not a decision that anyone takes lightly. I Had to Take Ill Health Retirement When I was 28 I had to take early retirement through ill health in 1994 when I was…
Chronic Pain
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Feeling Like A Failure Was One of My Failings
If someone has fulfilled their hopes and dreams, is well off, has a fancy car and a five-bedroomed house in a nice area, they’re considered successful. Qualifications, careers, acquired wealth, sporting victories and acting awards all seem to measure a person’s success. But when people live with chronic pain or…
Self Help
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Ten Good Intentions to Carry into the New Year
Here we are, celebrating the start of another new year. Each new year, people make resolutions. I’m not so keen on that term. Resolutions are seldom kept. I prefer to write a list of intentions. Good intentions which I will try to carry on in the new year. I really…
Chronic Pain
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I Am Not My Pain
It can often feel as though it comes along like a thief in the night and takes away part of ourselves. It creeps into the deepest crevices of our beings, then wears us down until there is virtually nothing left. It destroys who we are.
But it is important to remember that there’s more to us than pain.