And hard. It seems like everything that could gang up on me did. The arthritis in the neck is most likely a combination of the three accidents – the bus accident in Germany, the motorcycle accident in 78 and then being rear ended a couple years ago. I figured it would be my knees that “went” first.

I’ve been in a lot of pain for the past few weeks – just trying to “work through it” – but not much is helping. Heat, ice, a soft cervical collar – taking Loratab for the pain is not the option I want but I’ve had to once last week – that’s what made me decide it was time to get all of this checked out.

I’ve never been to a chiropractor – but I was thinking maybe it would be worth a shot – it’s like if I could just get my neck to pop just the right way the stiffness would go away. I still have a gut feeling that the “neurologists” might all be related to the neck problem, so I checked with my neurologist about seeing a chiropractor. He gave me the name of someone he felt “would do no harm” so to speak. I’m already mentally prepared for it to hurt worse before it gets better – I have days when I don’t think it could hurt much worse.

I can understand too why chronic pain can be depressing. I just want to be able to enjoying doing things – I don’t like hurting and pain takes a lot of energy.