Word: pains
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...something. In Search of Lost Time is six volumes long and rife with allusions and metaphors, so easy to apply Proust to just about anything. Wondering why that delicious cookie tastes so good? Proust has you covered. Sad that your mother doesn't hug you? Proust feels your pain. Struggling to properly describe the texture, taste, color, smell and sound of asparagus? Proust is your man (In Swann's Way, he writes "My greatest pleasure was asparagus, bathed in ultramarine and pink and whose spears, delicately brushed in mauve and azure, fade imperceptibly to the base of the stalk" Bingo...
...Mystery of Pain Why does the same joint problem make one person suffer terribly while another has no pain at all? There are a few clues that might solve this puzzle
...pill person" is what Ellie says. She is an attractive tennis-playing 65-year-old woman who has been with me through a broken wrist and a shoulder operation. She took only Tylenol for the pain in both instances. She is (for many other reasons) a great woman - upbeat and interested in everything, outgoing, concerned and very into her sports; I hope I'm at least a little like her when I hit 65. It's because of Ellie and others like her that I harbor a mild aversion to taking medicines myself. I haven't yet started swallowing...
...according to a well-done, recent study with 18,000 people - (half gets the stuff, the other the placebo and neither knows what they got until they report how the pills worked) - they are not effective. They are "natural" though, and many patients love them. The say their pain is "relieved" and they are sure the stuff works because of something about never having seen a shark with low back pain. Educated, rational people - even my favorite rheumatologist - still swallow the stuff. Go figure...
...plead, cajole and lie to get them. Every few months an article appears saying we give too many, then another month and an article says we don't give enough. Narcotics make good people do things they never would. In the medical setting they say "I just wanted the pain to go away - it?s about the pain, not the drug. "In the street setting they say" the drug took control over me - it robbed me of my free will." Remember, it's the same stuff...