Angelmom, thank you for your warm welcome!
I totally empathize with and relate to your wish that the pain would somehow go away completely for awhile. People who don't have AS can't understand what we live with 24/7/365. I'm sorry your pain is so bad. One reason I don't try .45 ACP analgesia is the very remote possibility that it might not be lethal. An AA friend's son lobotomized himself that way. Living like that looks more unpleasant than what we have now, and would likely render me even more ugly than I currently am, so I restrict my shooting to the range.
Life in the Rangers or any of the other special operations units is a completely different level of insanity than serving in a "normal" unit. They actually train us to ignore pain which would prostrate sane people. That and my natural extreme pain tolerance is how I ignored my pain in the AS for more than thirty years, only seeking treatment when my body stopped talking and started shouting deafeningly.
Where would we be as a country? I know many young men and women who are serving in uniform currently and who will be our business and political leaders of tomorrow. In spite of the seeming morass we see around us right now, the future is in outstandingly good hands.
I'm rambling...again, thanks for your warm welcome.
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If you would know a man, observe how he treats a cat.-
from "The Door into Summer" (1957), chapter 1 (Robert Anson Heinlein)
Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. (again, RAH)
