{"id":11,"date":"2020-01-05T07:36:55","date_gmt":"2020-01-05T14:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/painvalley.com\/?p=11"},"modified":"2020-03-04T20:52:57","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T03:52:57","slug":"humor-and-chronic-pain-a-top-10-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/painvalley.com\/?p=11","title":{"rendered":"Humor and Chronic Pain: A Top 10 List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a title=\"[365] 093\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/53628108@N00\/3467880606\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"[365] 093\" alt=\"[365] 093\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3583\/3467880606_d83aacee9d.jpg\" \/><\/a><small> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.compfight.com\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" target=\"newwin\">t<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p>When you are living with CHRONIC PAIN, it is vitally important to try to have a sense of HUMOR about your situation.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"entry-content\"><\/p>\n<p>I live with pain and I know that it is no laughing matter, and this is not intended to make light of a difficult situation, but I have also learned that if you don\u2019t laugh about the challenges in life, you are likely to cry.<\/p>\n<p>In the spirit of laughter, I have composed a top 10 list.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b>The Top 10 Clues You Live with Chronic Pain:<span id=\"more-29\"><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p>10- You wish there really was a Dr. House, M.D.<\/p>\n<p>9- You watch every medical drama and understand the medical jargon, the differential diagnosis and worse yet, half the cases sound like they could be yours.<\/p>\n<p>8- Your doctors talk to you like colleagues, instead of patients, because you are so well-educated on your condition(s).<\/p>\n<p>7- The \u201cmiddle of the night\u201d for you is actually more like 2 o\u2019clock in the afternoon because you deal with \u201csleep issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>6- Doing your chores, sometimes literally means just getting out of bed and taking a shower.<\/p>\n<p>5- Everyday feels like PMS. (For Women)<\/p>\n<p>4- You carry more pills than a pharmacy.<\/p>\n<p>3- Your moods change\u2026frequently.<\/p>\n<p>2- You forget things like\u2026wait, what was I talking about?<\/p>\n<p>1- Your doctor sees you and touches you more than your spouse! (Ba-Dum-Ching)<\/p>\n<p>I may not be able to do a lot of things because of my pain, but one of the few things I can do without pain (usually) is smile and laugh.<\/p>\n<p>What can you add to this list?<\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/53628108@N00\/3467880606\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" target=\"newwin\">Corie Howell<\/a>\u00a0via\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.compfight.com\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" target=\"newwin\">Compfigh<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>t When you are living with CHRONIC PAIN, it is vitally important to try to have a sense of HUMOR about your situation. I live with pain and I know that it is no laughing matter, and this is not intended to make light of a difficult situation, but I have also learned that if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pain-care","tag-dbtag"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/painvalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/painvalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/painvalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/painvalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/painvalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/painvalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160,"href":"https:\/\/painvalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions\/160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/painvalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/painvalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/painvalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}