Saturday, February 11, 2012

The 2008 APF Pain and Creativity Center

To share your own work of Pain Art, click here.

bzmomkfor

Leaves of Fall

I see the semi-naked trees about our community, their stature seems interesting yet ugly & stark to me. The leaves, having nurtured the trees now turn brilliant colors in their final days & tummult to the ground below. Sometimes they are carried off a bit by a gust of wind. I see them withered, dry, old & colors fading, veins dominant.... Read moreChevron
bzmomkfor

The Painful Un-Goodbye (shared in another chronic pain support group as well)

"Please God, please, just make the pain go away for just a little while, please?" I implore in a whisper between muffled sobs. I'd done my best to mask my pain from my children all day but by 4:30pm it was all too much. I put my hand over my face to hide & wiped the tears away as coverly as possible before they could streak down... Read moreChevron
renlady

Beach Scene

My name is Nancy Armstrong. I am a 47 year old 100% disabled  Navy veteran and deemed unemployable. I don't let any labels stop me from living. This last week I have been suffering from neck pain I believe being triggered by stress of an unresolved abcess in my husband's foot. He had an MRI but still no results. And this problem is... Read moreChevron
denise

breakthrough

I have had fibromyalgia for 16 years following a whiplash injury from an assault. when i first became ill, i was very frightened and no one could help me, not even by acknowledging that this was very real and beyond a hysterical reaction. "shrewdly it spread this pain to my soulbanished my heart and swallowed me whole" Now i... Read moreChevron
JaneThePain

Image of my pain

This is how I feel about my pain...lonely, looking for hope and not finding any relief...stuck between hope and misery LosLobos6@aol.com

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