Anyone else feel Isolated and not go out due to chronic pain?

This past Sunday at 4 AM I was in so much total body pain I wondered how I was going to endure the rest of my life. I am 77. I was in that period of not being totally awake but not asleep either. I heard a voice in my subconscious say to me "make peace with your pain." As a practicing Catholic, I took this as a message from God and every day I say to myself, "make peace with my pain." This is simplistic I know but it has encouraged me. I too feel socially isolated despite being in independent living in a CCRC. My husband died of cancer during covid and that grief and social isolation brought my level of wellness down several notches. I think the ramifications of the covid year(s) were the undoing of many of us for different reasons.

Hi Kerry,

How are things going? I did chk a bit re the site your daughter plays that game on. Can you ask her if there's a way to follow along but not play the game? Maybe she's on Bluesky or Substack?

Hope she's trying new things & even mother can feel an uplifted sense of happy relief too. Taken care.

@kerryflow

@ellesea01 she is not on here yet , but wanted me to share her instagram address with you and others here : pook-all-caps . Thank you !!

@ellesea01 she is no longer doing her youtube channel , but is on instagram : )

That i can do on my laptop, thanks Kerry. How the heck are you?@kerryflow

Appreciate the info thank you.@kerryflow

Thanks.

@ellesea01 the instagram is actually pook-in-all-caps https://www.instagram.com/pook_in_all_caps/

Isolated yes even though mentally and physically dealing with the issue, my one doctor put it in his records and mine. Why because I can no longer get my manual wheelchair alone, into my handicapped equipped car. I am unable to install wheelchair lift advertised everywhere because of Tongue weight? I now need to have caregiver load it a few times a week to get out and do swim at YMCA but that is it. I like fishing and all my activities have been curtailed. I do use my PC a lot to do stuff but sitting is killing me. I can't walk after hemipelvectomy removed my Ilium and put workload on one leg. PT now coming to my apartment to work with my strength training, but recent dizzy spells and fainting has now made it worse with more Cardio exams etc. Get some sort hobby where you can occupy your brain. Peace, Me

Though not as seriously isolated as some, regular pain changes what I do…I ‘’budget’’ my energy carefully and plan meds to get me through busier days…I can get necessaries done one way or another, but not so much the other more fun things. I do my work in small time increments, then rest, repeat, etc. I am fortunate to be managing pain enough to do this, and my heart goes out to all whose suffering and sense of isolation is greater…pain seems to be very hard for doctors to diagnose and treat…let’s hope for better and better ways to deal with this, which afflicts so many !