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The Breakdown with Shaun King

Ep. 139 - Taking a personal day

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.812.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2019

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Shaun shares some of his story of living in chronic pain and how hard it can be to take a day off. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Search Hurtility to find more. The breakdown. The breakdown.

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The breakdown.

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The breakdown. The breakdown. The breakdown. Hey everybody is Sean King and today I just need to take a personal day and as many

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of you know I have a long list of chronic injuries stemming from two major traumas that happened in my life.

0:59.0

All the way back in 1995, I was brutally assaulted and ended up having multiple spinal surgeries as a result.

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Then nine years later in 2004 I was in a horrible car accident.

1:12.0

I just posted a picture of that just a few days ago on

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Instagram, which not only made my previous injuries worse, it caused four ruptured

1:20.2

discs in my neck that I have struggled with almost every day for the past 15

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years. So yesterday I had a series of injections in my neck of cortisone and

1:31.0

epidural injections and sometimes when I get those I have relief right away and then other days like today after those injections the swelling causes its own pain and so today I'm in a lot more pain than normal

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and I just need to be able to rest and recover a little bit more than I had hoped.

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Now normally I would just keep all of that to myself and I think most people who live in chronic pain usually do hide their pain.

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But I just want you all to know what my real life is like.

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And also just wanted to send a special shout out to any of you who are also in chronic pain.

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I just want to encourage you. Keep on I get it I understand it I know how hard it can be to handle

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