Here’s what it’s really like to live in pain
I am a retired union plumber with the state of Illinois. I’ve had laparoscopic surgery on both knees, a lower back surgery that required two stainless rods, and I’m not sure how many screws, and three cervical fusions. I now suffer from neuropathy (nerve dysfunction) in my feet.
They’re painfully numb: A shoe could come off, and I wouldn’t know it. I find it difficult to get around — not to …
