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Chronic Pain: When It Seems As If You’re Playing A Losing Game
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mpratt
Lately, my pain experience has been much like playing that arcade game where you hold a hammer and wait for a thing – sometimes an artificial mole, sometimes something else – to pop up from one of the many holes on the game playing board. When you see the “thing,” you’re supposed to hit it…
Chronic Pain and Illness: Who Is By Your Side?
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mpratt
Long days of illness can wear on us, and often make us feel as if we are navigating choppy waters in a leaky boat all by ourselves. How well I know the feeling when I’m especially ill of the hours dragging on, thinking that everyone else is out in the world, busy, being productive, while…
Chronic Pain: The Void in Your Life
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mpratt
Sometimes, pain becomes so overwhelming that it closes out every ounce of strength and light that we might once have felt. And, into their place, there is a void. A void of light. A void of will. A void of hope. The pain can suffocate and keep us down. Yes, it can prevent us from…
Chronic Illness: How Can You Have Hope When They Say, ‘There’s Nothing More We Can Do’?
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mpratt
Toward the end of last year, I received an email from one of the patient advocacy groups I keep informed of. It said that a lupus drug had failed in trials and was being scrapped – but not to lose hope! We’ve had only one new drug approved for lupus in the past 50-60 years,…
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