![]() ![]() While I cannot call myself “healthy”, I have health insurance and a compassionate doctor. ver the years I have seen countless medical practitioners, swallowed a pharmacy’s worth of medications and supplements, tried specialized diets, and had almost a dozen surgeries. I have a rare, incurable collagen disorder causing, among many other amusing symptoms, joint degeneration and digestive abnormalities. ![]() Nor is it pleasant to be reminded that pain is the most effective method of torture, or learn that medical treatments intended to reduce pain may unwittingly increase it.įull disclosure: I am a chronic pain patient. Reading about the sufferings of others is never pleasant. Profound and engrossing, yes, if not exactly a pleasure. On the cover of my paperback copy, People magazine burbles “Profound and engrossing, this exploration of pain is a pleasure.” The ensuing onslaught of severe pain down her neck, right shoulder, and arm sent her on a medical and literary odyssey resulting in The Pain Chronicles, a comprehensive investigation of chronic pain in its many manifestations. Hoping to impress a possible boyfriend, she swam across a pond. ![]() ![]() When writer Melanie Thernstrom was 29 years old, she went vacationing on Nantucket with friends. ![]()
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