Long Neuropathy Poems

Eileen was born 80 1/2 years ago
on the first day of winter on the ground a bit of snow
with a twinkle in her eyes and a healthy glow
having both outer and inner beauty to bestow,

Second...

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Leaving my car, I hasten my pace as
silent pain, screaming inside me
intensifies with the increasing movements made
by what I only can describe as an invisible snake
slithering beneath my flesh.
It’s felt by only me, and seen...

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**My mental state here lately, hasn't been very well,
Mainly because of everything I'm medically battling through.
But whenever it's gotten to be too much, I feel like I blasted through Hell,
My body's physically drained, & my...

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I really look dumb,
                               ...

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**This is entry number thirty-four,
I'm sorry I haven't written more.
I tried to write something every day,
But then I didn't have much to say.

**So this evening I decided I would write,
And I believe this entry will...

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**This pain from having Neuropathy, it's affected me so much more,
And it's affecting my left lower limb, alot more than just the right.
It's also getting to where, it's impossible to ignore,
Lord I truly hope, I'm...

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Collaborating in the Clouds

Dear Lord, so often I hear Your most loving voice
Are You calling me home or giving me a choice?

     The neuropathy is a challenge for I gave you
...

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**This morning I had awoken, with this swelling in both
my hands,
And however this had started, I do not have a clue.
I wonder if there are people in my support who
understands,
Is this another symptom, that I...

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I walked with Colby,
  he never walked with me

His spirit to guide us,
  his love in the lead

We circled the globe
  a time and a half

His tail was my compass
  to...

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I got bad feet,
diabetically speaking
The proper medical terminology,
or so the doctors tell me,
it’s chronic neuropathy
These feet don’t have feelings
like the rest of my body
I’m just a live man walking on dead feet
You can step on...

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**My doctor confirmed my condition, during our telephone call one day,
It's known as Peripheral Neuropathy, & it's nothing like I thought it would be.
It's progressive & incurable, affecting my nerves in every way,
And I still...

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**This morning my legs have already started to ache,
I hate that I go through this every single day.
Whenever my pain is intolerable, it then becomes too much for me to take,
I just can't believe it's...

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When a book is presented
As being conflicted in ways
TRUTH can arise only when
Time has fulfilled her days

Choice is paramount in LOVE
Possibilities endless in scope
Circumstantial evidence presented
In so many ways that leave, without hope

...of tomorrow

Within that...

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Tasty home-cooked meals
  A heater that works every time
Shoes that ease my neuropathy
  My collection of Mercury dimes 

Glasses that calibrate my vision
  Grown sons who consider my advice
A computer that responds...

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Cold blooded diabetes
Try to stop her
If you can because 
Insulin shots are not fun
But they must be given
When you're dealing with

Cold blooded diabetes
Will ravage your body
 it can cause gangrene
And limb amputation
So take good care...

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pain misdiagnosed for three years

encouraging prognoses based on lies 

wish I could return to more carefree days

but now I know neuropathy has my life on the line

pain subsides as numbness sets in

in time I’ll feel...

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