Hello Freewriters!
Today's prompt is a very touchy subject for me. I deal with debilitating back pain, and am currently on medical leave from my job because of it. So this freewrite is kind of a venting area for me. Please don't take offense, this is 34 years of frustration!
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They give a prompt, and you have 5 minutes to write! All of my writings are considered Autobiographical Fiction. They are not necessarily real. You never have to feel sorry for me, this is the way I create.
FAIR WARNING: Most of my stories are sad in some way. Be prepared to have the feels!
Now, onto the writing!
"Everybody has back pain." The doctor looked over my x-ray, seeing my spine shaped like a question mark, and not bat an eye. "This isn't even that bad, I have seen much worse Scoliosis." The doctor not even acknowledging how much I was actually hurting. I tell the doctor, I am unable to dress myself. I am unable to tie my shoes. I am unable to go to the bathroom without help. But still, just a little bit of physical therapy will help. Just doing side planks will solve all my problems.
"Everybody has back pain". I try to tell my friends and family about how bad it really has gotten over the years. I am in so much pain that living day-to-day sometimes doesn't even seem worth it if I have to live a life that is so low in quality. They don't understand, because to them, everybody has pain. And they keep going on with life. They don't see any reason why this little bit of pain should stop me from wanting to wake up every morning with a smile on my face. Yet, they get to go to work everyday, be contributing member to society, and get to enjoy things like walking around, bending over to pick something up, getting up and down out of the chair without feeling pain shoot from their toes all the way to their brain.
Everybody has back pain. I get online and try to research as much as possible what different things I can do in order to get rid of some of this major suffering. Can I take some sort of herbal medicine? Can I change my diet? Are there different exercises I can do? Anything and everything under the sun I try to research. But does everybody feel the back pain the way I feel it? Is it really ruining their life? Or is it just a little blip on their radar that slows them down just the tiniest bit until they can pop a Tylenol?
Everybody has back pain. Well I would prefer to not be everybody, and be a nobody.