Life with chronic pain is being a stranger in a strange land whether you have the pain, live with someone who experiences chronic pain, or treat people with chronic pain. You all have much in common and little in common. The more we can speak the same language, use the same descriptors, and shortcuts, and understand each other’s dreams and pressures, the better we function as a team. Penney Cowan’s American Chronic Pain Association is for the whole team.

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Music by permission from Joey van Leeuwen, Boston Drummer, Composer, Arranger

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Thanks to these fine people who inspired me for this episode: Ting Pun, Matt Cheung, Fatima Muhammed-Ighile, Harvey Hellerstein, Pharmacy Joe Muench
Links
American Chronic Pain Association

American Pharmacist Association

From the ACPA

The Car with Four Flat Tires

Art of Pain Management

Proactive Effective Communication Kit

Quality of Life Scale

Pain Log

Care Card

Partners for Understanding Pain

Growing Pains

Pathways Through Pain

Ten Steps from Patient to Person

Family Matters

What is Naloxone?

Opioid-induced Constipation

Taking Care

World Patients' Alliance
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A word for 2020: narcissist. Not the way you think.  Pain is the ultimate narcissist.  When below the pain threshold, I can think and function.  Above threshold, pain rules all, jealous. Perhaps podcasting about chronic pain helps me keep pain below threshold.