Zebra Wrangling: Managing those pesky symptoms

In late summer 2018, I took a trip with my mother to Entwistle, Alberta, in Canada where her mother was … More

Owning Her Stripes

For most of her life, she had experienced pain. Pain that other people said couldn’t exist.

10 Years After My War on Drugs

Ten years ago, I began a war against a drug that now takes the life of thousands daily

These Antibiotics are Killing People Every Day

Do you read the paperwork that is handed to you by your pharmacy when you get a new prescription?

A Power Chair Gave Me Back My Life

Walking hurt, so I stopped walking. When it stopped hurting as much, the pain was replaced with neuropathy and when I walked, I began falling. The day before my 52nd birthday, a powerchair was prescribed. I waited with bated breath for the freedom that it offered.

Writing About Cannabis on Odyssey

In the last month I have been sharing articles about the evolution of my chronic pain treatment as well as what a fellow-traveler (and cannabis patient) has learned walking to Seattle from San Diego.