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From: MSN Nicknamethe_profiler_dan1  (Original Message)Sent: 10/17/2008 7:14 AM
Hi, My name is Dan. I am from Harrisonburg Virginia. I use to live in West Virginia but because of the need for constant medical care, I moved closer to a city. My life, like so many peoples has been rough. I had a rough childhood. My medical problems pretty much started on June 6, 1999. I had my own window cleaning business. I was giving it up. was asked to do this last job because I had just come into contact with a great paying job. It was a blessing. But I loved cleaning windows too. It just made people happy and more cheerful. I was finishing the job when I fell 20 feet off my ladder and took my foot off. It took me several years to get it reconnected. It destroyed my back. With all the surgeries I have chronic pain because the sympathetic nervous system of my brain is overworking and constantly registering that I have injured my leg. So I swell for no reason. The back pain is by far the worst part of it now. Plus I feel like I am losing feeling in my arms and legs at time. I have arthritis all over from my injuries. But what is most perplexing and hard to deal with is when medical personel don't understand why I am in as much pain as I am in. I feel that is only something that most of us can trully appreciate here. I have developed many other problems as a result. I have fibromyalgia, arthritis, nerve compression, high blood pressure, complex sleep apnea, restrictive lung disease, bipolar, depression, plus I hate to leave my house. I know that sounds like I am complaining but I have no complaints any more. I have accepted my life. It is my family that I worry about. I don't want them to miss out because I can no longer do the things they want to do.
 
I hope that I can be a source of encouragement to you. I try to take a positive approach to what I am going through. I hope that by what I go through, I can offer someone else understanding and compassion and empathy. I try to not acknowledge my pain for the most part. I think I try to make the most out of whatever day I have. It is all I can do and I have learned to accept that. I am just so tired of fighting though.
 
I hope you all have the best that your situation allows.
 
Dan