| — You've got nothing to lose on there being a plan to improve the back
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| — What they can do is get you to visit one of these pain clinics.
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| The question is whether or not it’s worth it, just to be able to move a few
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| hundred meters further without pain
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| — But let’s say you could go down to Hallstahammar with less of a hassle
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| — Yes, but what I’m asking is whether or not its worth it just to b able to
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| walk a few hundred mters further
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| — But is it really meant to be that way. |
| That you, for example, shouldn’t be
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| able to sit?
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| — Well, that’s something you can work up to. |
| I’m going to have to,
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| either that or, for example, use the toilet while halfway standing and halfway
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| sitting. |
| And that’s enough, why should I need to sit? |
| In order to aimlessly
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| ride around on a bus?
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| — Are there no other situations where you feel it would be beneficial to be
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| able to sit?
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| — No, I can’t think of any. |
| Sit on a bench outside while feeding pigeons?
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| — Sit in your kitchen?
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| — Well, in that case I might as well be standing. |
| I don’t understand the
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| difference between standing and sitting, it’s not that important to sit
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| — But I’m having a hard time understanding what’s being said. |
| There’s a freedom
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| in increased mobility
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| — Yes, but there’s also a freedom in not experiencing any pain
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| The greatest change in Hasse’s life is that he is no longer able to sit because
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| he has gone through arthrodesis due to vertebral misalignment of the spine.
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| He’s able to stand up and walk for short periods without support,
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| but is constantly suffering from pain. |
| He spends most of his days lying down
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| — But are you receiving sickness benefits for the rest of your life?
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| — Yes, it seems like it
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| — It seems like it? |
| Do they have any plans for getting you rehabilitated?
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| — No, I’ve often asked about it. |
| But it seems like there’s nothing they can do.
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| And, in a way, that sounds tragic, but I can’t think of anything that would
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| alleviate these kinds of things. |
| Perhaps some specialized training that makes
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| it possible to sit. |
| But should you sit when it only leads to pain?
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| (Hasse is listening to an old interview featuring him)
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| — It's like a dragon that I have to fight against. |
| It’s the social thing.
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| Social district 13
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| — Dragon?
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| — I have to fight it with my sword, while it breathes fire towards me.
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| But I’m going to win. |
| And everyone knows that the knight always wins and gets
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| the princess in the form of a check, a cash check
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| — I have to stop here. |
| Did I really say that?
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| — Yes, you did |