For six years, the main thing Penney Cowan heard about dealing with her pain — some days she couldn’t hold a coffee cup — was that she’d have to learn to live with it.
Many people said it to her, including doctors, but nobody told her how.
“First of all, it looks impossible,” says Cowan, founder and executive director of the American Chronic Pain Association, which is based in California. “Imagine knowing that when you get up in the morning the pain is still going to be there, and if you get out of bed it’s going to get worse. Pain is depressing, and when you’re told to learn to live with it, it just closes the door.”
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