Family Issues #9
On Fridays, I’ve been having a series of posts about family issues and your pain. Pain conditions affect not only you, but also your family… your husband or wife… your children… your Mom and Dad… even your friends.
These posts are excerpts from a handout for family members (and friends) of patients with pain [...]

Family Issues #8
On Fridays, I’ve been having a series of posts about family issues and your pain. Pain conditions affect not only you, but also your family… your husband or wife… your children… your Mom and Dad… even your friends.
These posts are excerpts from a handout for family members (and friends) of patients with pain [...]

Unfortunately, even kids can get chronic pain conditions.  Here’s an interview with a 10 year old girl who has chronic pain.
How to Cope with Pain: Can you tell us a little about you?
“L”: I’m 10. I have a cat and a hamster.  My stomach started hurting in 2005.

HTCWP: What has been your personal experience with [...]

Family Issues #7
On Fridays, I’ve been having a series of posts about family issues and your pain. Pain conditions affect not only you, but also your family… your husband or wife… your children… your Mom and Dad… even your friends.
These posts are excerpts from a handout for family members (and friends) of patients with pain [...]

Family Issues #6
From a drug rehab website, I learned    

“dinosaur” is someone in his 40’s or 50’s who uses heroin   
“criss-crossing” is setting up a line of heroin next to a line of cocaine and, through a straw in each nostril, snorting half of each line, then switching and snorting the other half lines
“goat” is heroin
“white mosquito” is cocaine

Very [...]

Family Issues #5
On Fridays, I’ve been having a series of posts about family issues and your pain. Pain conditions affect not only you, but also your family… your husband or wife… your children… your Mom and Dad… even your friends.
These posts are excerpts from a handout for family members (and friends) of patients with pain [...]

Family Issues #4
On Fridays, I’ve been having a series of posts about family issues and your pain. Pain conditions affect not only you, but also your family… your husband or wife… your children… your Mom and Dad… even your friends.
These posts are excerpts from a handout for family members (and friends) of patients with pain [...]

A reader Rochelle asks about a difficult relationship with her grown daughter.
When someone in a family has chronic pain, there are special challenges that come up for the whole family.  We’re looking at some of these on the Friday series about pain and the family.  Unfortunately, having pain doesn’t free you from all the other problems [...]

Family Issues #3
On Fridays, I’ve been having a series of posts about family issues and your pain. Pain conditions affect not only you, but also your family… your husband or wife… your children… your Mom and Dad… even your friends.
These posts are excerpts from a handout for family members (and friends) of patients with pain [...]

Family Issues #2
Today’s post is the second in our Friday series about family issues and your pain. As we discussed last Friday, pain conditions affect not only you, but also your family. Your husband or wife… your children… your Mom and Dad… even your friends.
These posts are excerpts from a handout for family members (and [...]