Discussion about this post

User's avatar
Rona Maynard's avatar

“There’s a pill for that.” From a doctor. But here you are. HERE YOU ARE. And no one encountering you for the first time today would guess what you endured, and how you made it through. I learned a lot about medical snares from this piece.

Expand full comment
Amy Brown's avatar

Nan, I listened to this piece, with your signature humor and vulnerability and openness and keen sense of observation and appreciated it very much. It seems like you have taken a stance on pills and medication that serves you well now. I admire you for that. I've not had a dependence on pills but I can see how it would easily happen. Taking Tramadol recently for my low back pain helped so much with the most intense early pain and one night after stopping the initial 5-day course, I wanted so much to pop another one because I was having an acute attack of pain. But I didn't. I was worried about how much I wanted the opioid relief. So I used a heating pad, meditation, deep breathing and finally fell asleep and felt better in the morning. Having had an unhealthy dependence on alcohol that led to me giving up alcohol four years ago, I know the slippery slope of addiction. It takes a lot of strength to step back from that precipice and you have done it, Nan. Wishing you health in all ways.

Expand full comment
57 more comments...

No posts