My Story: A New Mother’s Epidural Gone Wrong
In 2012, at the age of 32, I became pregnant with my first and only baby, a boy, due October 22nd of that year. At…
arachnoiditis
My Story: Disabled by an Epidural
Every morning is the same. I wake up to the searing pain of being in one position too long. I'm trapped this way, my body…
Anesthesiologists Say Complications from Epidurals ‘Very Rare’
Weeks after the Food and Drug Administration warned of serious complications from epidural steroid injections, American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) called the risk of complications…
FDA Warns about Epidurals
Patients who suffered spinal cord injuries during epidural steroid injections are cheering a decision by the Food and Drug Administration to require drug makers to…
Featured Pain Art: “The Divided Soul”
An aircraft accident in 2000 left me with spinal cord injuries, Central Pain, and an entirely different way of experiencing life. Intractable pain is a…
Featured Pain Art: “Honesty and Hope”
This painting is a self-portrait of my adaptation to life with arachnoiditis. I was a healthy, active, productive member of my community. I was a…
Living with Pain: My Spinal Cord Stimulator
It was the summer of 2005 in Los Angeles, six years after extensive spinal surgery to correct the aftermath of my broken spine. My pain…
Living with Pain: A Face from the War on Pain
In 2000, a heavy wind shear struck with no warning in downtown Los Angeles, hitting the single engine plane from which Radene Marie Cook was…
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