'I'm in a lot of pain but anytime I bitch about it someone inevitably says " you could be dead".'

That'd solve the pain thing. But there's better ways. Are you taking the meds prescribed to you?

The knee reconstruction will be another adventure in uncomfortableness--we gotta get away from the "P" word; makes me have to take one. On the bright side, when that uncomfortableness that feels like pain--be right back--is gone, you'll think ya died and went to heaven. So, here's the deal, Dobsie: anytime you have pain--brb--and you wanna bitch about it, bitch to me. I have lots of tolerance for other people when they are in pain--brb.

B

PS Remember, it's all in your mind. And every effin' part of your body except those that don't have any pai--uncomfortableness.