Mary's bed to make sure she did not wake up alone in the middle of the night.During that time she felt hardly any pain in her knee at all and none of the depression she had been experiencing. Several weeks later,when life began to return to normal,Donna realized that the level of ...
Severe pain on the inner or medial side of the knee can be disabling. Many people with terrible pain on the inner or medial side of the knee do not recall any injury. There’s often a similar story or history given by our patients with regard to the onset of severe knee pain. One d...
What a terrible loss – handed me back a paper that I had thrown together at one in the morning the night before, and had scrawled at the top, “Please. Don’t waste my time.” I still have that paper, by the way. And her note. And I gotta say. She wasn’t wrong. It wasn’...
They lock the doors to their children’s bedrooms at night because “the children might get out of their beds and wander around the house, and we may not hear them”. If one child should get punishment, all three are punished, and if one child says a “naughty” word, all three are...
it took my mental illness away. At first I couldn’t believe it. After a rush to the ER for joints screaming out in pain one night, I was relatively pain-free but also mental illness-free the next morning. It was like night and day- literally and figuratively. I was euphoric. I was...