Beware of the steady focus on pain alone
For pain is not the only symptom we battle
Yet pain’s voice can be the loudest
Blaring over all others…
Or worse yet, swallowing them into itself
The headache, the abdominal cramps, the stabbing in the feet
Forced to feed into the great voice called Pain…
Those with softer voices yet carrying horrifying weapons of their own
Like bloating, muscle spasms, brain fog, blurry vision, burning sensations
Are carried away on pain’s current, and its need to be in the forefront…
We must remember each one of our conditions
For each one carries its own set of symptoms
Oftentimes overlapping thus covering up the condition responsible…
This masking and blurring, often made worse by our medications
Further weakens the voices the need to be heard and understood
To better assist us in dealing with what condition is truly at the front…
While remembering that each day, each moment
We have no control…none whatsoever…except how we deal with the voices
Attempting to listen harder so that we might better strike at the source…
Mom Is Sick -- For Parents & Kids 
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