The Broken Samurai

If you're like me, you've probably spent one or two days on the couch watching Samurai movies while either in awful pain, or recovering from the medication designed to help you be in less pain (fuckin' Methotrexate).

Like the warriors from those films, we deal with a lot of pain that most folks couldn't even come close to understanding, making us much like the samurai depicted in this illustration: Tough and mysterious. Fair warning: The Japanese text on the right should loosely translate to something to the effect of "Pain Warrior", or "Warrior of Pain", but I make no guarantees that it won't be a marriage proposal as well. I watch Samurai movies with English subtitles. I'm not THAT cool.