I am so much pain almost all of the time. I'm going for exrays next week, at least on my neck. Back in the early 80's I had 4 different back (spinal) surgeries from the base of my brain to the bottom of my tailbone.The surgery on my neck was the worse as far as a painful recovery. I don't have a bone in the back or around my neck to protect it like others do. The doctors cut the ends of each vertabra so my spinalcord can breath. The doctors said if I would have fallen with a whiplash I would have died. The thing is, the night before I went into the hospital for surgery I tripped the night before over the metal strip going from the livingroom into the kitchen. And I did have whiplash, which hurt, but of course didn't do anything else. I've always known there is a God because I was raised in a Christian home and am so grateful for each and everyone of my family members for raising me that way. After years of ware and tare on my neck and bones almost all of my bones are extreamly painful now. I'm not sure if I have arthritis or could it be bone cancer, like my Mother died from. She started out with her arms hurting badly just as my arms have hurt me so terribly bad. Please pray for the pain I am having, which my pain medication is not helping either. My insurance has just changed this week where the ins. is not paying for my original pain medications that I've been on for a few years so it has changed to another medication that I have not ever been on before. This new medication is not helping my pain at all!! So please pray that I don't have cancer, but that this ins. and my DR. will change my medication to something that will help me!! By the way,I am already disabled in a hospital bed because the last back surgery I had has caused so much nerve damage that by 1992 I had quit walking. I did my best not to give up walking on the walker, but it got the best of me. And I am a "Little Person" as in Dwarfism,medically terminology. Thank you, Patty Wastler

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