Information and opinions on health from dre at HealthCentral.com. HealthCentral.com is one of the top health destinations on the Web, with more than 35 condition-specific, wellness and general health Web properties. http://www.healthcentral.com/profiles/c/5866/index http://www.healthcentral.com/profiles/c/5866/rss self application/xml en-us 15 120 19 http://www.healthcentral.com/images/hc_logo_sm.gif http://www.healthcentral.com/profiles/c/5866/index http://www.healthcentral.com/chronic-pain/c/5866/13988/pacing-floor Thu, 20 Sep 2007 23:24:00 -0400 dre Pacing the floor as I stare at the door for the pain is more than I can endure .The door to freedom from this pain I wonder and want to explore .How can it be when it remains shut and locked to the world beyond I implore .My minds returns to this unrelenting pain wondering if the answer lies beyond that door or with in this floor  .For once I am not sure of  what awaits me outside that door .I hope that this urelenting pain has not... http://www.healthcentral.com/chronic-pain/c/5866/13988/pacing-floor http://www.healthcentral.com/chronic-pain/c/5866/13986/not-ag Thu, 20 Sep 2007 23:10:00 -0400 dre It is so hard to reach down and and think when things are in such an upheaval in my body . My thoughts always seem to go back to the pain , sickness and how am I going to just make it through . My mind and spirit being in a good place from all of my work starts to erode again . My wellness being tested again starts to slowly melt away like the wax from the dipped layers of a candle that started with just the thin wick . The long thin wick being... http://www.healthcentral.com/chronic-pain/c/5866/13986/not-ag http://www.healthcentral.com/chronic-pain/c/5866/13990/peace-war Thu, 20 Sep 2007 00:00:00 -0400 dre To find peace with pain is like going through the process of fighting a war .Some will live and some will die .You never know if and when it will end A war for some is never over with within . A war with ammunition and protection that more than often does not work A war that when you are left in that fox hole of pain you have nothing but yourself and what you have learned to depend on .The many doctors appointments and failed treatments are... http://www.healthcentral.com/chronic-pain/c/5866/13990/peace-war