Today begins the day where I start life over. I have not yet accepted that this pain will be forever, but I know I must relearn how to live.
I must learn to transition from a life with pain, to a life (just with pain).
In this case, the word just is ok, because the objective is to minimize the impact of the pain, not to minimize the pain completely.
I believe this is my test. A life-long test. A test that reminds me that I do not control everything that can happen to me, but that struggle in-and-of itself is the reward.
This spoke of my scoliosis, at the point at which the pain I was enduring had me limping. I was eating Ibuprofen at more than 2400mg a day (for over a year) just to function. Today I take no pills. Today I am in no noticeable pain (most of the time). It was shortly after this that I stopped taking Ibuprofen (cold turkey), and my therapies finally started to provide lasting relief.