Your Arguments Don’t Make Sense and I’m Still in Pain

I’ve been in a funk for the last month. Which is an extension of the funk I’ve been in for the last six months, which is an extension of the funk I’ve been in for the last few years.

I’m in pain.

This isn’t new, of course — pain started for me in my early 20s with my ulcerative colitis, increased with my diagnosis of ankylosing spondylitisin my late 20s, jumped higher still in my late 30s with the development of Crohn’s fistulas, pushed even higher in my 40s with degenerative disk disease in...