Sorry for the delay in answering @ken82. I’ve been prepping for the RDLA Conference with Congress at the end of the month.
I understand what you are saying and if I was citing statistics or studies for a specific PUBLIC purpose, I definitely would. To not do so, is called PLAGIARISM. But I’m not doing that.
What is on Mayo Connect penned by me to Friends in times of need or in response to the same, is my PERSONAL OPINION AND DRAWN FROM MY PAST EXPERIENCE—which the person is informed of. It is written completely OFF THE CUFF and is extracted from what is stored in my brain from the life I and my husband have lived over 40 years as Chronic Pain and disabled warriors.
We were two professional people, not burdens but then our bodies could no longer tolerate our diseases or the impact of them and any attempt to earn a living, play, or function in a normal way became impossible or harmful.
In other words, life officially became a burden for us and all around us. Severe, unbearable pain with non-stop sciatica? Burning legs and foot with a combination of sensitivity to touch and cold. Lower back pain that is touched but not managed by a SCS. And exhaustion that makes a seven day hospital shift look like a cakewalk. The perfect spouse for a man with loose, painful shoulder joints that slip in and out during sleep, a hip that is constantly sliding out of socket and injuring his surgically-repaired labrum, and the nerve-damaged feet which keep him awake and destroy his p pool mornings.