ARTWORK - carried off in the grip of pain

I handle my pain with art. 

here's my impression of how it feels to submit to the pain....

Oh, the post says I need more text! Okay, here's where my pain comes from:

 I am a cancer survivor who has been through two major surgeries divided by 4 months of chemotherapy, which interrupted my body's ability to heal itself. I am living with chronic pain as a result of a chronically dislocated ribcage, with resultant musculo-skeletal bone pain in four ribs that float and crack with every breath (unless I still totally still. Hence the art obsession), leaving me with a chronically dislocated shoulder , four discs in my neck dislocated, post-chemo permanent ear-ringing and also neuropathy in my neck, left arm, left side of my torso, hands and feet, four surgical hernias in my torso, and aggravated spondylitis in my cervical spine from c2-c7.  The surgeries removed one kidney, one adrenal gland, ten lymph nodes, the left tube to my kidney, and the top of the bladder on the left where the tube connected bladder and kidney. But thanks to sugeries and chemo, I survived a rare stage three cancer, and live with the daily if painful reminders of surviving both the disease and the cure.  Sheesh..it sounds bad when you actually put it all in writing at once <sigh>...

Poor me!! NOT.  I am totally alive still. Art, writing, drugs, heat, and my dog are my salvation these days. I'm happy to have found this site.

I hope you enjoy my work~