Welcome to March’s Pain-Blog Carnival…  the best posts of this month.  Enjoy!

In Sickness and in Health writes an intriguing post about how a child’s game helps her gain distance from pain.

Nickie’s Nook shares a moving personal story of being open to psychological coping skills, despite what that admission might mean in our society. 

Read about dealing better with migraines triggered by:

• smells (at Migraine Chick) or
• cleaning agents (at Somebody Heal Me)

Accepting our chronic illness means:

• re-defining “normal” (at A Chronic Dose)
• managing our unpredictable-ness (at Working with Chronic Illness)

Learn how to manage the challenges to a good night’s sleep that pain can bring at Healthskills.

Read about spreading the word about pain at Afflicted with RSD/CRPS.

CRPS-RSD A Better Life links to a fascinating video about a brain researcher who describes her own stroke.

And last, a great resource list I came across at Fighting Fatigue on Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

Thanks to everyone for their submissions!
April’s Pain-Blog Carnival will be Wednesday, April 30
Deadline for submissions:  Friday, April 25
Send in your submissions here.

Thanks to Code Poet at Flickr for the photo.  The here’s the link to this week’s Grand Rounds, a medical blog carnival.