Day thirty six

I decided to wait until the pain had subsided temporarily before I write today. Yesterday I walked to church. It's a 15 minute walk and I had to stop on the way. My back is hurting now as well as my front, and it was getting too painful to walk. I made it there and someone gave me a lift home afterwards. I am really feeling like a semi-invalid hypochondriac now!

But it was unusual to go to church, sit at the back and listen to someone else preach.

I don't know if I could get used to that.

But I have gotten used to not having an alarm clock - who needs one? I'm up before it used to go off anyway.

But I wonder how people put up with pain for long periods. From 1983 (20th December to be precise) until 2009 (no precise date) I woke up with a headache every day. Sometimes severe headaches. They were nothing compared to this. I was able to graduate with a Sociology degree and a Theology degree; I had a church in Belfast, followed by a church in Taunton, then I transferred into the Methodist ministry where I was put in charge of a circuit of 9 churches by myself, and did a Master of Theology degree. All while I had daily headaches.

It was while I was church planting in Eastbourne that my headaches stopped, while I was doing an MA in Evsngelism Studies.

I couldn't do any of that now, with these pains. I know what pain is like, but I haven't known it like this before!