Pain comes in many types, not just physical, yet this is the one most of us deal with most often. I cannot imagine there is anyone on the planet who has not suffered physical pain in some way at some time in their life. Many babies are welcomed into life with a smack on the bottom forcing them to cry and prove they are alive. The McGill pain chart attempts to quantify the different things that hurt. The level of pain is scored out of 50 with RSD getting the highest score of 45. In 2002, my family was involved in a horrible car wreck in which our 10 nearly, 11-year-old daughter, Elizabeth died. We were all severely hurt filling up all of ICU and PICU units at the hospital we were taken to. We ran up over $2,000,000 of hospital and medical bills. The pile of bills is over 2 feet high. I was left handicapped with RSD / CRPS, a nerve dysfunction where a trauma site hurts constantly and for the rest of the sufferer's life, as if the trauma had just occurred. The human body has about 204 bones, 100 in the feet and hands. I have broken 10 of my finger and toes and a further 40 bones from the top of my head to my feet. I have also damaged several major internal organs such as my liver and lungs. The RSD/ CRPS causes them all to hurt as if I just damaged or broke them, leaving me in chronic constant pain over my whole body. Over the years since the accident, I have had to re-evaluate my life and chart a completely different course to the one I was on before 3:04pm on March 24, 2002. Part of this re-evaluation has been to work out how to be happy and have joy while living with constant, mind-numbing pain. Despite several subsequent accidents and major trauma, I have succeeded in being able to fight the pain and find joy. As I believe in sharing, I have written a book about my experiences, and using lots of humor, demonstrated how I have been able to go from despair to joy, even though in pain, 24 hours a day 7 days a week. As well as the physical pain caused by the RSD/CRPS, I have had to deal with mental, emotional and spiritual pain and anguish. This sort of pain may or may not involve physical damage and is generally caused by things like the death of a loved one, the loss of a job or a divorce. This pain can make us feel as bad as physical pain can, sometimes worse and for longer periods. The RSD/CRPS has caused me intense mental, emotional and spiritual pain and anguish. as I have had to accept I can no longer work, play or sleep. I have had to learn to find joy, even when the new course my life is taking causes gloom, despondency and depression. I have had to stay joyful because before and after the accident my wife, Ann, and I have been foster parents. We have fostered over 130 children and have adopted six. Fostering has shown us what can happen when things go wrong in someone else's life, yet you have to pay the consequences for the rest of your life. With five of our children, aged 16, 14, 13, 12 and 5 still at home, needing all the support a loving daddy can bring, I cannot afford to be miserable, gloomy or depressed, even though I would seem to have every right to feel down in the dumps. Fighting Pain Finding Joy will show you how I have managed to do exactly what the title says; Fight the Pain and Find Joy.