If you know me, you know I don't talk about myself & the pain I endure every day. I just suck it up & keep breathing. It's not that I think it's stupid to talk about, it's not. It's just no one really seems to understand so I've decided to use art in various forms to express the neverending pain that my body feels while suffering from Rheumatoid arthritis (RA), Osteoporosis, and now my most recent positive blood test for Scleroderma and the wreckage they leave behind over the years.

This image is the first in a series of images I am creating to express in art what it feels like to live in my defective body. My hope is that the visual representation of my pain will help explain it better than just my descriptions because when I explain them to doctors, it is rare that they even make eye contact let alone understand the points that I am trying to get across. 

The image below is my first attempt at letting you understand the pain and emotions I go through from the time I woke up over 33 years ago till now and for the rest of my future because, from that day when I first started feeling the beginnings of these pains, they have never stopped. Like a constant addition to my conciseness as neverending as the universe.

I hope others who live with constant pain can relate to this image and find strength in the words.