Everything Was Fine Until You Asked About My Limp.

Tony Jones, M.A.
Age of Awareness
Published in
8 min readFeb 13, 2020

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OK, this one is personal, but I promise that you can take something from it.

On July 2, 2017, my life changed forever. I won’t say that it changed for the good or the bad, but it changed for sure. That morning I experienced excruciating back pain that shot down my legs. I immediately dismissed it and assumed that it was just another sciatica episode, which I had experienced for the previous eleven years. For the next two days I would army crawl around the house, pull myself up to the toilet using my arms, all while thinking to myself how I…

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Tony Jones, M.A.
Age of Awareness

Tony Jones is a freelance writer that covers race, culture, music, and sports across multiple platforms.