Let’s face it, if you have a cold, you ache, have fever, a runny nose and feel miserable, you identify with how badly others feel that have a cold. If your back is injured or has been, you likely have a very different understanding about back pain and how debilitating it is. You know from your experience that you can’t just make up your mind and you are over that cold or back pain. I’ve got a friend who spent about a week flat on his back in his new cabin in the woods after he hurt his back. It wasn’t the trip he had been planning.
I’ve been hobbling around for about a week with a bad foot that got worse. I normally walk my dogs about three miles a day. 
I have a very different understanding of how foot pain can affect your daily life and routine than you might have. My neighbor whose foot is in a cast has been forced to living on his couch for a number of days. Things that you normally do, you no longer can do. You try to see what you can do and if you find that doesn’t work, the result is pain. So, you start doing less so that you feel better (read that as hurt less!). Those fun things you used to do, you have to not do and stay at the sidelines and find how to best stay comfortable.
I’m looking forward to a quick recovery. So are my four legged friends! We’ve got balls to run after and catch! We’ve got places to explore. They will tell you it’s not much fun not to get out and see what’s going on in the world, even when the temperature is around 100 degrees. Variety and fresh tennis balls are the spice of life. So, the next time that you start thinking to yourself that someone is exaggerating their condition and pain, just remember how you felt when you had a cold. See my earlier post How Well Do You Handle Suffering?
Fortunately, I should be making a full recovery. Unfortunately, I can’t say that about many of my injured clients. Take it from Big Foot that when the shoe is on the other foot, it’s a whole other ball game. One you wouldn’t want to trade places with particularly when the injury is permanent.
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