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Life with Chronic Pain: The Baseball Bat on the Front Stoop
by Alicia DiGiammarino When I was still in middle school, I began coming up with creative ways to tell my mom I loved her. “I love you like Shakespeare loved to write!”, I would exclaim, partly just to hold her in the door frame a second longer before I was left...
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A perspective of healthcare provider in pain
Life takes us all on a journey, it twists and turns and you end up in places you never expected. Pain is not just physical but it is also psychological and impacts everything we see, do, feel and experience. Being a healthcare provider does not protect one from...
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Gratitude and Recognition for Caregivers
Wikipedia defines caregiving as “an unpaid or paid person who helps another individual with an impairment with his or her activities of daily living”. There is one type of caregiver that is missing from most caregiving lists. They are the caregivers for people living...
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Medical Marijuana: How to Choose, How to Use
From little information to an overload of information online, it is easy to imagine that most people living with pain, their family members, and caregivers will be overwhelmed about whether or not cannabis is a viable pain relief option. First of all, it is very...
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