National Pain Week 2018
It is national pain week in Australia! Awareness week for those who do not live with chronic pain, and who does not know the daily struggles accompanied with it. And for those, like me, who are unlucky enough to live 24/7, 365 days in a year, with a pain. The week when it is time to really tell the world how we, living with pain, are feeling. Showing the truth with ups and downs, so that instead of assuming, people would take a second to even try to understand, that everything is not like they see it. The fact, that chronic pain is more than often invisible, makes it even harder to explain to others. Easier to walk to the bus with crutches and get the seat. Rather than walking to the bus without anything and hoping that someone would see the struggle. Note ! I am not saying, that visible illnesses always get the “attention” because I know, that is not reality. I understand, that it might be hard to understand how in one moment I am perfectly fine, an...