How It Feels to Lose Bernie Sanders
On a good day, when he’s feeling sturdy, Andrew Bauer can run simple errands, like going to Walmart to pick up groceries. On a bad day, which is most days, the stabbing pain in his back and neck leaves the 48-year-old lying prostrate in bed, where he composes long, emotion-filled Facebook posts about politics and tweets about Duke basketball. Sometimes the pain is so intense that the left side of his body feels like it’s burning, like he’s being slowly consumed by an invisible flame.
Bauer, who lives in Durham, North Carolina, has suffered from chronic pain for most of his life, but complications from a recent cervical-spine surgery have made that pain immeasurably worse—and left him completely broke. He can barely pay his bills, and he can’t afford the follow-up treatments and surgeries
