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How many layers does this onion have?

Damn.

2 years ago, the total body pain and physical fatigue had gotten to a quality-of-life point. For 20 years, I’d dealt with increasing joint pain throughout my whole body. I was at a point where I was in bed 16 hours a day, just to function for 6-8. I was using every pain cream known to man, popping OTC pain meds like they were candy, just to take the edge off.

A bunion lapiplasty and a surgical adjustment to a tendon on the exterior side of my left foot and ankle, took care of 90% of the total body pain and fatigue.

Still dealing with depression. Still dealing with anxiety.

Get bunion lapiplasty on the right foot, earlier this year.

I end up falling and striking the right front part of my head 3x in 6 weeks, with the first one being a real ringer. I know it happened, but I didn’t feel it much, because I was about 5 hours out of surgery, coming down off of anesthesia, and still dealing with a medication pain blocker (because bone surgery hurts without it, a lot), AND having already started the prescription pain meds. The end result being that I think I have a very mild TBI.

I have all the symptoms, but they also match some of my depression and anxiety symptoms when they decide to ramp up.

The food intolerances I’m trying to address as I can financially afford to, the endocrine issues that I’m trying to mitigate, the mental health, and just when I thought I was going to at least get over one physical problem, I replace it with another.

Do I just really like onions so much that on a subconscious level I must have as many layers as possible?