“My motto to people with this condition is that you have to put together your distractions to deal with the pain. I start looking at something that will make me laugh every morning like two seconds of funny cat videos,” she says.
“Because those two or three seconds in which you just smile and enjoy something, you forget that you are in pain, even if it is a millisecond. It’s just something to reset, to tell yourself like” Hey things are still funny. ” I also do so many other things, as I write, I paint, I do comedy.
Tom Norris: Living with the ‘Fiery Dragon’ of chronic pain
For Tom Norris, 76, chronic pain is a daily battle that he refuses to lose. He is a retired American Air Force Lieutenant -Kolonel who was stationed in Saudi Arabia and the Pentagon, among others.
He now lives in Los Angeles, where his wife works as a character actor in film and television, while spending his time to plead for chronic pain patient involvement in clinical tasting and run a virtual support group for 500 members.
His chronic pain started in 1986, two years after a diagnosis of testicular cancer, surgery and 30 days of radiotherapy.
“The tumor was the size of a basketball,” he says, insistently that his pork was a blessing by cancer and everything that followed. “I’m not going to hug this nonsense.”
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