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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MoxieFu" data-source="post: 5193518" data-attributes="member: 41849">But what if it's permanant?I rolled up my first character in 1980, I have been playing since 1981. Coincidentally in 1980 I injured my back for the first time. Disc slipped, nerve pinched. Several chiropractic treatments and few weeks later I was as good as new. Then it happened again 8 years later, then about 4 years later, then two, then the next year, and so on.At the time I didn't see the pattern. Finally in 1994 it happened again the day before New Years Eve. But this time it didn't go away. Cortisone injections, physical therapy, medications, chiropractics, and assorted quackery later. Still I didn't snap back.By this point the doctors decided it was degenerative bone and joint disease and surgery is not an option. A disc bypass fusion would only cause the next disc up to pop, then the next, etc. My only option was pain management in all its forms. I did the exercises and treatments and was able to continue working for 11 years. I kept gaming for 13 up until about two years ago. At first I had to quit DMing, then after another year and a half I had to give up going to the games altogether. I just couldn't enjoy sitting through them and I was affecting other people's enjoyment of the game too much so I had to give up.My friends keep gaming once a month and are great at keeping me in the virtual loop but it's not just the same.Sorry to unload so much negativity but I just didn't feel like bearing this alone. I sure hope it doesn't happen to anyone else but I guess these things do. ENWorld has gotten to be my main connection to the game mostly just lurking here and I do really appreciate having it around. I have been coming around since a few months after the 3E Player's Handbook was released and I have loved every minute of it. I wonder a lot what it will be like to get back into gaming on the other side. Maybe I'll even get in a pickup game with Gary? It'd be nice to get to finally experience Castle Greyhawk first hand and not have any copyright holdings get in the way. It's nice to dream anyway.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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