@MxVerda not to be grim but it turns out if you're already living with chronic pain, you can convince yourself for an entire year that the pain of a bone infection is just normal wound healing pain, even after it doesn't close for an entire year and the guy who did the surgery scratches his head over and over at why it's not healing
@Atatra
Swap bone infection with gallbladder removal and yes.
I mean, the “diet and exercise” shit *does* help. It just doesn’t help noticeably.
@MxVerda bloody hell, i'm sorry, pain sucks, i guess we know that more than most people.
@Atatra I’d throw a heart emoji at you instead of a star if mastodon let me
@Atatra Yeesh. I’ve not had that, but I’ve heard people talk about bone infections. I’m sorry you had to deal with that, too.
I know yada yada opioid crisis, but they should be the ones to know that leaving people in pain is just as (and sometimes more) disabling.
If I can’t sneak into medicine after training as a therapist, then I’ll at least nag every clinician I see as a patient about it when it’s remotely relevant.