1992...year one

It started on our first anniversary.  He was having a lot of tooth aches from his wisdom teeth.  The Navy told him to get in their office and get them pulled out. 

All went well until the bottom, back right tooth got stuck because the nerve was wrapped around the root. 

The pain started not long after the procedure.  It hurt for days and then would ease up.

Shae was young; just 21.  In his young life, he had broken his hand, arm, collar bone twice, fingers, and by the look of his nose...his nose, so he had a high pain tolerance.

Yet, a constant, aching pain in a person's head is a different kind of pain.  A pain that is right there, shadowing your every thought, movement, and word, is a haunting pain.

Anger seemed to always be in the recipe when the pain would come.  Shae would lash out at those he loved most.  He wasn't normally an angry person, it just seemed the pain in his head made him more sensitive to outside stresses.

He did try.  I know there were many times in that first year that he ignored the pain.  Shae would keep some of his emotions inside, so he wouldn't verbally hurt the ones he loved most.

The pain would come slowly.......almost like a roller coaster.  Tick Tick Tick; the sound of the cars climbing up the hill.  The fear, anticipation, and adrenaline is almost overwhelming as the cars reach the crest of the ascent.  So is the climb of pain.  It might take days or weeks to reach the peak.  Following the peak, Shae would go on a roller coaster ride of shooting electricity type affliction in his head. 

Then slowly the decent and end of the ride, or in this case, the pain.

In the first year, the pain was would get bad, but not near as bad is it got in the years to come. 
In 1992, he could still function with his pain.

During about this time frame, I may have some dates off a little, the doctors tried to tell him it was just an dry socket from the tooth being taken out.  But, the pain persisted for months, so that theory was then ruled out.

More diagnoses in the years to come....