chronic pain resilience 2025-09-20T09:45:24Z
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Rain lashed against my hospital window like thousands of tiny fists, each droplet echoing the IV pump's mechanical sighs. Three weeks into this sterile limbo after the accident, phantom pains in my missing leg would hijack midnight hours with cruel precision. That particular Tuesday, 2:47 AM glowed on the cardiac monitor as I fumbled with my phone, fingers trembling from both pain and the cocktail of medications turning my veins into icy rivers. Social media felt like screaming into a void, game