I’m a super private person, but I want the world to see what I go through on a daily basis. I want people to be affected by it. The US healthcare system is so very broken. Doctors don’t treat patients if they don’t want to. Insurance will deny procedures and cause the doctor’s office to have a peer to peer consult, which they don’t want to do.
I want doctors to see what a pain patient’s life is really like. I want lawmakers to see how broken the system is so they can help to fix it. I want other pain patients to see this and know they are not alone, and that if I can make it through, so can they. I want pain researchers to see this so they have a better understanding of what pain is and how it ruins lives. I will even volunteer as a guinea pig for any researcher to do whatever they want with me to study pain and develop new medications and procedures. And I want the average person to see it so they can develop empathy for disabled people and pain patients.