FREE CONVERSATIONS!! I taught Anger Management and Domestic Violence Diversion courses before becoming disabled by chronic pain. I Studied Health Education at Iowa State University. I have experienced addiction, disability (I use a cane), homelessness, violence, poverty, divorce, suffering, chronic illness and loss. I have degenerative disc disease, fibromyalgia, depression, a (benign, but BIG) bone tumor in my femur and have a failed C5/6 fusion that will be repaired soon with C3-7 being fused this time. My next surgery will be my 10th. What do you want to talk about?