LADY BLUE'S PAIN MANAGEMENT CENTER

Hey everyone!! Welcome to my pain management center! Walk-ins are welcome, no appointments are needed! Pull up a seat and rest your aching body for awhile. What type of pain do you live with? How do you treat it? What do you do when it overwhelms you?

The two posts below are from a blog post I did, but I felt it appropriate to include them here.

"This pain is constant. Day and night, I feel this pain that God has bestowed upon me. Sometimes it burns me like a hot fire poker. Yet, through the pain, I laugh!! I smile! I keep a positive attitude because it gets me through the day without giving up and giving in to the pain. Pain knows no limits, it is not mindful of the age of the person it afflicts. It really is terrible to get old and decrepit, not being able to do what I once could..

I have lived with this pain for so long now, that I think it would feel un-natural to NOT feel it. My pain has made me stronger, has made my faith stronger. I hate my pain, yet I am grateful for it, as I am grateful for all my past, present, and future trials. I never knew the depth of my strength until I had to start living with unending pain every day. I am indeed a strong woman!! I will endure, and I WILL survive!!"


Comment originally posted by Joidevivre: "Hey friend- I'm here for you. It sounds like His Grace has been in equal measures to your pain. One thing that has helped me with pain is to focus on one little part of you that feels no pain (ear?) and spend some time praising God for the health in that part- that it is free of pain. Don't know why, but it somehow seems to diminish other pains after awhile. Or we become not as aware of the pains. When I worked in the hospital, it worked on some patients. Unexplainable!"

from last night's post: "I have a birthday party to go to in a few hours. My aunt is 90 years old! They're gonna have music and a DJ. I'm hoping my old bones can boogie down a little bit! lol.. I love to dance so it will either kill me or make me feel better..lol ​I deal with my pain by laughing. By crying for a few seconds. By smiling. By dancing!!


How do YOU control your pain?

I understand how debilitating pain can adversely affect your life from watching my late wife's suffering from horrible crippling arthritis, a horrible skin condition, diabetes, angina, anxiety, depression and other serious health challenges. Despite this, she was always cheerful, loving and spiritual with a deep love of the Lord in her heart. She was the bravest person I have ever known and I am comforted by the fact that she is with the Lord with a new physical and spiritual body and is able to walk without pain and take in the full joy of life.

Despite your own pain and suffering you bravely live your life and have allowed the Lord to let you become a source of joy and inspiration to others. I appreciate you for the spiritual person that you are and I admire your courage and tenacity in living out your life to the fullest so as to set an example for others to follow and emulate. Your story is remarkable.

Blue, as of right now I don't have the severe pain you have even though in my past I did. But like you I always had a positive attitude about it and I pushed through because I had hope and I wasn't even saved.

I do go through pain a lot but it isn't constant like yours, I do however go through a different kind of pain. A lot of times for reasons unknown my heart and soul become very weary, not sad but just so tired and in need of rest. It's a very heavy feeling and it's like trying to get through the day without having any sleep for days on end. I didn't choose this, I don't understand why my heart and soul become so weary but I will have these kinds of episodes out of nowhere.

But I want you to know that as one who knows what true pain is I can assure you it gets better♥

I am not gonna lie I too have done the same thing many times. I will be going to bed and I had a great day I was with God and with my fellow cc users so there is no reason for me to be weary but the second I lay down my soul and heart are so worn out. I feel like an old man does when his time is near when this happens where death actually seems nice, to just slowly go into a deep sleep of peace and no strife. I have asked the Lord to simply take my life so I can be with him and can have peace and not be so spiritually weary and tired but I know he won't do that lol.

I have thought about this a lot and I could see it as me being severely depressed but I don't think that's it at all, it may very well be my heart and soul knowing it's time is near to be with Jesus at long last or perhaps this world is just so hard and I am unable to take the heat and am being a whiny wimp lol

My thoughts behind why he hasn't taken me yet, is because he hasn't finished building my little cabin on a lake with lots of ducks and other animals yet.. lol.. I just got my brand new bed set. A Serta Perfect Sleeper mattress..woot woot!! I hope to have a blessed peaceful nights sleep tonight. Don't feel bad, I'm a whiney wimp too..lol

Hmm, let's just say "a lot of pain". I don't want to get into the specifics but you guys know some of it already.

1. Prayer - If you are ever in a painful situation, just be where you are and cry to God. You can excuse yourself to the restroom and cry there. It does not matter where you are, just cry. And tell God everything. If you have the strength and if the Spirit urges you, talk in tongues. In moments when I am "utterly broken", I have noticed that the Holy Spirit fills me up in a very, very unique way - something that I have never experienced unless I am "broken". It's like this groaning and agony that is coming out as a prayer from within me. I can't explain it. You have to experience it to know what I mean.

2. Humour. Am I always cracking a joke? Yes. Am I always funny? Usually. Do people like my humour? I've not been hit by any brickbats so far.

3. This is a bit difficult, but you could try. Just do what you love best - get into that "shell" of yours. For me, it would be playing my guitar or sitting by the seashore and looking at the waves or going on a long, long drive.

When it overwhelms me, I make it a point to pray. I don't care if I can't cry, but I will sit there and ask God to break my heart so that I can cry in His presence. And it happens. That's like a "pressure cooker" letting off a lot of steam.

Sometimes I get into an "aggressive zone". I put on my running shoes and go work out at the gym. I wish I could run a few miles along the sea coast, but here the sea is polluted.

Another idea if you are a bit extroverted is that you can talk to people. Hitch a ride in a car. Hop on to the metro to nowhere and start chatting up the person next to you. Take a taxi to the other part of the city and start talking to the taxi driver. Or do a good deed - help a needy person, feed a poor child, just sit down and talk to the homeless person, etc.

Just remember one thing - "No matter what, it is not worth losing yourself for another person." And by the term "losing yourself" I mean, doing anything that would destroy your health or your life (e.g. getting sloshed, self-mutilating, suicide, etc.)

Lady Blue I wish I could magically wave away your pain, but alas I am not able to do so for you. If I lived closer I could come and give you back rubs and share a cup of coffee and say prayers with you... Prayers I can say for you where I am, but wish with all my heart Vermont were closer to Florida....You are an inspiration to others and such a helper too and you can sympathize with those who suffer as you do and you do such a good job encouraging them. God bless you Lady Blue.....

My pain is emotional from too much death, loss and rejection in my life. Finding my mother dead at the age of 8 started my brokenness and only God knows how many times as a child I cried in my pillow from that loss then at 12 my dad died from cancer and again loss and feeling oh so alone. I married at 17 just wanting to belong somewhere and have a family but that ended in divorce 6 years later and feeling and knowing rejection just added more to the emotional pain....

I determined at a very young age I did not want people to feel sorry for me so I covered the pain with laughter and humor and at times have been coined to be funny....oh but the pain that lies just beneath the surface. I would truly laugh rather than cry or complain as no one wants to be around a sad complainer.... So a stiff upper lip and a smile on my face with jokes not far behind.... I say show me a great comedian and I will show you someone who suffers underneath that others are unaware... Robin Williams might be one such example and I am so saddened by his death and the pain he too must have hidden beneath the surface behind his smiles.

I thank God that He has watched out for this orphan as I can look back over my life and seen His hand working and taking care of me and loving me when there was no immediate family for me. I thank God that my ex-In-Laws have continued to love and care for me over the years even when their son pushed me away. I thank God that after 35 years He has given me a New Family to become a part of and that loneliness will soon be filled with laughter and activity that new family members will become a part of including me with them. I thank God that He has filled the emptiness and emotional sadness during my single time that He helped me not feel rejected by Him and totally loved and cared for by Him. Pain can come in many forms but God is able to heal them all and soon He will.

Hey blue I was wondering are you offline a lot recently or hidden? Because if your hidden well that could be an issue for me I have to be able to know when my blue is online

aww, is this because of all the attacks ppl have done to you recently? do you want me to ahem.. teach them a lesson?

hmm.... so, blue isn't being invisible for ppl being mean... your just trying to be mysterious aren't you:b

I have a few friends with Fibromyalgia, one of them also has Lupus. They are resilient and positive like you ladybugs. I love your posts. You remind me of this song the kids sing in Sunday school, I've got the joy, joy ,joy down in my heart. We all have to deal with some pain now and then, emotional or physical. When times are tough, I thank God for the good I've got going on and I trust him to keep me going.

Because your a ninja, you sneak in all quite make a post and then poof gone, no one ever even knows you were there.....

Fenner, no matter how much pain I'm in every day, I manage to drag my buns on here and make some humorous posts because I love to laugh, and I love making everyone here laugh as well. Usually I'll read somebody's post that is really funny, and practically fall out of my chair laughing.