Yeah, definitely, I almost include that under persistent pain - the fear. I've had a couple small versions this year, including (and it seems ludicrous) but this absurd thing with my toe. Which keeps recalling for me the genius of Jayne Cobb: "Pain is scary." So yeah, I'm really sorry, yours is so much worse! It's awful!

I know several people, including me, who use FB, Twitter, & LJ/DW w/o overlap. It seems very intuitive & natural to me, but I have no way to communicate that. I'm just saying it to point out that you certainly don't *have* to give up any, unless you want to. Anyway I'd miss you.