Short breaks from pain – a new drug

To say I respect and try to avoid the use of drugs is an understatement. I’ve got a sleeping aid prescribed in 2001 that I still haven’t finished. I only take it when things are so bad I’m crying for lack of sleep. I save it, I cherish it because it works when nothing else [...]

Thoughts on coping with CMT pain

Last Saturday I went to a chronic pain support group meeting that was more a they- tell-us than a we-tell-them but it served its purpose. I didn’t stay for the entire meeting because it began an hour late and the room was freezing cold for me. I soon lose vitality in a cold room and [...]

Daily thoughts

Some things flit through my mind and others stick…sometimes for days..sometimes forever. Last night I watched a movie called A Short Stay in Switzerland starring Julie Walters as a physician suffering, and I mean suffering, from a disease that was eventually going to see her unable to speak, swallow, feed herself, walk and, in general, [...]

Shutting the door

It doesn’t happen often but sometimes my husband and I have to be in two different places at the same time.  We have one van. Today, I had to be at the hairdressers at 11 a.m. He had to be in Welland to have the van looked at at 10 a.m. The weather is nice [...]