For over a month now, I've been dealing with pain. Last week, it peaked into a labor intensity level of pain. My husband had to take days off of work to help. My children were asking if I was about to die and checking in on me occasionally because they were worried I'd already died. Medication has brought the pain down to tolerable levels for the most part by now, and more tests are being run to try to determine the cause of the pain. However, it's become clear to me that it is entirely possible the answers will be neither quick nor easy and that pain may be the new "normal" for me. To say this transition is stressful would be an understatement. I spent last Thursday pretty much crying or sleeping all day long. I can feel the stress and concern rolling off my loved ones in their looks and moods and even their nightmares. I can't imagine what they must be reading off of me right now. Part of me has wished for answers or for this to settle into normality faste...