Fibromyalgia (chronic constant pain) has made me one hard bitch, dealing with pain is so soul sucking that you feel like nothing could possibly phase you. I looked at the video thinking no way this is going to make me cry. Well it did...ALOT
I'm young but I walk with a cane...and people rudely ask about it
I hardly eat anything but somehow am 90 pounds overweight.
It's impossible to exercise when exercise makes your pain increase.
I'm trapped in my house bcause I no longer have the strength to drive my stick shift mustang that I bought when I was healthy.
If I do leave the house I have to take my wheelchair, so I can have a place to sit because walking is painful and exhausting.
My wheelchair is manual, so I lack the strength to push it and sometimes I end up just sitting on the sidewalk somewhere looking pathetic.
So fat, in pain, and drugged out on painkillers is no life.
No I dont WANT a handicap spot...I'd rather walk
No I dont WANT disability...I had a great career I had workd hard for
No I dont WANT drugs...even though the pushers oops doctors give me tons of the good stuff
No I dont WANT pity...you can shove that pity
I WANT a normal life

No amount of condescending "encouragement" from friends and family could lead me to believe in myself again. I even had someone call me lazy because I am overweight....wth I can't walk. and I don't wish it on anyone. I had alot of anger, disappointment that my life was not what I had imagined it to be, resentment...regret....depression...suicidal thoughts...you name it.

But this man and his story really touched my heart...no my soul. I've been crying for ten minutes straight...thank you OP...I needed this...he is a million more times inspirational that any Jared or BiggestLoser...he was where I am...and if he could find his way home...then so could I