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I came in on this topic late, but I think it's funny there are so many of us in somewhat the same age/ht/wt range. Maybe only some people mentioned it, but it struck me odd. I am 41, have 6yr and 4yr boys. Maybe being smallish (I'm 5'6, 117) makes it harder to haul the little (big) ones around. I can't pick mine up at all.... it's been a while since I even could. I think for me, the worst thing about being in pain is that it's distracting. I used to be so organized- had all xmas presents bought and wrapped by July. Last xmas I shopped the day before- for the first time in my life. It's hard to get things done like cleaning, shopping, laundry, cooking, bills, blah blah, because I get interrupted by the pain and just don't get things done in an orderly manner. I've always forgotten something or only half-done it and have to start over.
I have a husband, but no other family. I have noticed that being in pain seems to have isolated me from the 'other moms' that have kids. Which is too bad, because it would be nice to have some friends with kids to do things with as a group. And yes, it does make me sad sometimes seeing so many of them being 'super-mom' in the classroom and everywhere else, when sometimes I barely drag my Best if kept off the board around. I don't bother comparing myself with them because I can't be them. And I don't try to make myself feel better thinking someone else has it worse. Someday I'll have it worse. Those things are unimportant. Sometimes it isn't so much that my disabilities are hurting me, it's having pain that isn't being addressed that's hurting me. Sometimes you forget that it isn't really that you have problems, that the house isn't spotless and shirts are untucked blah blah, it's that if you weren't in pain those things wouldn't be so bothersome and overwhelming.
Just my viewpoint, of course.
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