Word: paines
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other police officers from Montgomery County, Maryland, were trying to arrest a man strung out on angel dust when the suspect started kicking Ventura in the side and face, again and again and again. It took four operations for doctors to repair Ventura's fractured spine. But the pain never really went away. It was as if someone had forgotten to turn off a switch somewhere deep inside his body...
...developed a timed-release formula that had proved helpful in other cases. The treatment allowed Ventura to abandon his hospital bed and, for the first time, lift his infant son. The downside was that he was chemically dependent on morphine; the upside was that he was no longer in pain. "I had a lot of trepidation about taking narcotics," says the ex-cop, now 46. "But until I was put on sustained-release morphine, I had no life...
...naturally, there's no way to avoid the pain. The best runners can do is to start training long before the event...
...race itself is not the only hard part. Runners have to be ready to deal with the physical training, the mental hurdles and, of course, the prolonged pain...
Pleasure and Pain...