Rusty Bertrand on Nostr: Luigi #Mangione had #spondylolisthesis a lower back condition. He wrote about painful ...
Luigi #Mangione had #spondylolisthesis a lower back condition. He wrote about painful symptoms like sciatica on Reddit.
R.J. Martin, who owns Surfbreak, told the New York Times that shortly after moving in, Mangione experienced such debilitating pain from a group surfing lesson that he needed Martin to switch out his mattress.
Mangione also told Martin that his condition prevented him from being in a romantic relationship.
"He knew that dating and being physically intimate with his back condition wasn't possible," Martin said. "I remember him telling me that, and my heart just breaks."
https://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-spondylolisthesis-luigi-mangione-lower-back-condition-2024-12
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I know this pain, it started when I was 31. Pain doubles every year. Now I'm 48.
A leg and ankle broken in 3 places was a 2. A fucking 2 out of 10.
This lower spinal fusion is a constant 8 to 10.
You would go into shock if you felt it straight up. And the doctors say "everyone has back pain". You saw how fit he is, I was like that too, push through the pain, super fit, a survivor.
But it breaks you. It's torture with no relief. And you can't push through it anymore. No dating, no sex, no future, because you are no longer viable. You are only pain.
Surviving one day at a time, trying not to look too long down at the street, because you start to wonder if you are high enough to finish it.
It's not "having thoughts about..."
Or "ideation" FFS! who thought that one up? It is a constant fight AGAINST those thoughts.
Then you realise what they did to you. The gaslighting, the doctors who refused tests and you start to think. Who? Who is actually responsible? Why? Why are we forced to live like this, we wouldn't do this to a pet? Why are they doing it to us. Stealing our lives. Theft feels personal.
Pain is personal. They deny your suffering. They violate you over and over.
"Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned"
-WBY
R.J. Martin, who owns Surfbreak, told the New York Times that shortly after moving in, Mangione experienced such debilitating pain from a group surfing lesson that he needed Martin to switch out his mattress.
Mangione also told Martin that his condition prevented him from being in a romantic relationship.
"He knew that dating and being physically intimate with his back condition wasn't possible," Martin said. "I remember him telling me that, and my heart just breaks."
https://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-spondylolisthesis-luigi-mangione-lower-back-condition-2024-12
_________________
I know this pain, it started when I was 31. Pain doubles every year. Now I'm 48.
A leg and ankle broken in 3 places was a 2. A fucking 2 out of 10.
This lower spinal fusion is a constant 8 to 10.
You would go into shock if you felt it straight up. And the doctors say "everyone has back pain". You saw how fit he is, I was like that too, push through the pain, super fit, a survivor.
But it breaks you. It's torture with no relief. And you can't push through it anymore. No dating, no sex, no future, because you are no longer viable. You are only pain.
Surviving one day at a time, trying not to look too long down at the street, because you start to wonder if you are high enough to finish it.
It's not "having thoughts about..."
Or "ideation" FFS! who thought that one up? It is a constant fight AGAINST those thoughts.
Then you realise what they did to you. The gaslighting, the doctors who refused tests and you start to think. Who? Who is actually responsible? Why? Why are we forced to live like this, we wouldn't do this to a pet? Why are they doing it to us. Stealing our lives. Theft feels personal.
Pain is personal. They deny your suffering. They violate you over and over.
"Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned"
-WBY