Pills for Breakfast: Reflecting on My Two Year ‘Pain-niversary’
It took me two years to figure out that I could paint the top of my prescription bottles with nail polish so that in the…
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Pills for Breakfast: We Need More Chronic Pain Awareness
Man, my medications make me so freaking tired. Like seriously, I’ve been off work for nearly two weeks because of the holidays, and I basically…
Pills for Breakfast: Is the Mayo Clinic’s Pain Program Worth It?
So I’m pretty sure my insurance isn’t going to cover the three-week pain program at the Mayo Clinic. Or at least that’s how the registered…
Pills for Breakfast: Why I Love My Doctor
People are always asking me why I drive two hours, one-way for a doctor. I mean, it’s not like I live in the middle of…
Pills for Breakfast: Why I’m Almost Thankful for Pain This Thanksgiving
I think, maybe, I really have found an inner peace. All I had to do was get through hell. Or maybe I’m just a little…
Pills for Breakfast: What’s Next?
The thing about being Type A is that I’ve been trying to figure out the answer to “What’s next?” since I was 5. Back then,…
Pills for Breakfast: My Affair with Opioids
I’m at the doctor’s office. It’s the second week of February, 2013. She thinks the sharp pain in my ribs is from an ulcer. Probably…
Pills for Breakfast: Looking for God on the Operating Table
There I was, stomach down on the operating table, in only a hospital gown and my underwear, and I found myself doing the one thing…