Janice Lynch Schuster – PAINS – Pain Action Alliance to Implement a National Strategy

An Unwelcome Guest: Living with Chronic Pain

PAINS Project — Mon, 15 Dec 2014 18:43:34 +0000

by Janice Lynch Schuster – Published by Disruptive Women in Health Care When you have lived with chronic pain for a while you come to know exactly what to do when it shows up in your life–nostrils flared, clamoring to be let in, so noisy you can’t turn him away. Whenever he (or she) shows […]

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What We Talk About When We Talk about Pain

PAINS Project — Wed, 12 Nov 2014 15:34:20 +0000

by Janice Lynch Schuster You wonder what it is in human nature that triggers reactions to disease and illness that are not compassionate and healing, but that are, instead, harsh and judgmental. One writer described this trait in an essay comparing how people respond to diagnoses of breast cancer to those of lung cancer: In […]

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Passport Stamped for the Land of Pain: Learning to Live in a Foreign Land

PAINS Project — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 10:15:17 +0000

by Janice Lynch Schuster For many years, my passport was stamped in the land of the well, but a poor response to oral surgery in 2013 cancelled that document, leaving me in the land of the sick, the suffering, the other. While I was a well-one, I’d hear stories from that other country—and listen as […]

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Word Art – submitted by Janice Schuster

PAINS Project — Wed, 08 Oct 2014 15:42:24 +0000

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7 Thoughts to Help You Manage Chronic Pain

PAINS Project — Wed, 30 Jul 2014 12:57:57 +0000

by Janice Lynch Schuster – Published by MariaShriver.com When I underwent a procedure that my oral surgeon described as “just a snip”, my life changed. A longtime citizen in the land of the well, the surgery left me a deportee to the land of chronic pain. Overnight, I became a permanent resident—me, and some 100 […]

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‘Just a snip,’ I was told. But that was just the beginning of my troubles

PAINS Project — Tue, 22 Jul 2014 15:20:13 +0000

by Janice Lynch Schuster – Published by The Washington Post I have never been one to visit a doctor regularly. Even though I had accumulated my share of problems by age 50— arthritic knees, poor hearing — I considered myself to be among the mostly well. But 19 months ago I developed a perplexing problem […]

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