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“It was impossible to explain to the healthy the logic of the sick, and he didn’t have the energy to try.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“If I only could explain
How much I miss
that precious moment
when I was free
from the shackles of chronic pain.”
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How much I miss
that precious moment
when I was free
from the shackles of chronic pain.”
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“Chronic illness is hard. Pain is hard. Isolation is hard. The financial cost is hard. Grieving is hard and necessary and sometimes takes far longer than we ever imagined.”
― Discovering Hope: Beginning the Journey Toward Hope in Chronic Illness
― Discovering Hope: Beginning the Journey Toward Hope in Chronic Illness
“That is what chronic illness is . . . a disconnect between what our souls can do and what our bodies can do.”
― The Unchained Spirit: Or, the glass is half-full but I've forgotten where I put it
― The Unchained Spirit: Or, the glass is half-full but I've forgotten where I put it
“We have a genuine and devastating epidemic of opiate abuse in this country, and it is of critical importance that this problem be addressed. But we must do so in a way that doesn’t cut off an effective (and often the only) treatment for the chronically ill, many of whom are able to function in this world at all only because of the small respite that responsible opiate use provides.”
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