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Mayo Clinic Pain Rehab Center (PRC) - What’s Your Experience?
Chronic Pain | Last Active: Aug 11, 2023 | Replies (113)Comment receiving replies
Hi Larry, it's so nice to meet you and learn that you are a fellow graduate of the PRC. I join @colleenyoung in appreciation of your contribution on Connect.
I graduated October 2020 from Jacksonville and am always looking for fellow PRC'ers to share their positive experiences with members of the Connect community. 13 years out and still singing praise! I think that is a testament to the lasting impact the PRC has on lifestyle changes, and one's overall well-being and self-management.
Please allow me to introduce you to @tallyteresa who is also a PRC graduate and thinks the program should be taught in high schools because it's that valuable. It definitely is a total package experience, one that completely transformed my life and out look on life.
It's very cool to learn that when you return to Mayo, you speak with students still. I also am a graduate guest speaker and agree, it does me just as much good as it does them. Which Mayo Clinic location do you visit?
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We live 3 hours S
outh of Rochester Minn, so we make the trip up there frequently. I have been blessed with almost 14 years of relatively good health. The past 2 years, new challenges have come into play. My original spinal cord injury developed into Adhesive Arachnoiditis. Then in 2017, I was diagnosed with Central Sensisitation Syndrome which is now impacting all my sensory nerves. WOW. Walking and standing can be horribly painful, and I have lost 95# the past 2 years. Last month, we met with the resident expert at Mayo who deals with this. It is coming down to what I can do to manage the symptoms. You have to be a little hard headed, to keep pushing, but I will. Having another procedure at Rochester in late June, so we will see what they determine.
We have to keep moving and always take it 1 day at a time. As my doctor told me, "you have a forest of problems infront of you. We can only tackle one or two trees at a time." Live each day to its fullest and 1 day at a time. Never stop to count the bad days. Look with hope into every new day that God gives you. No one answer to surviving chronic conditions, other than looking for joy, peace and hope in each new day.