Chronic pain has a way of upending a life.
In her memoir This Is the Door, writer Darcey Steinke writes that “pain, like failure, breaks into our everyday lives and upsets who we thought we were and what we thought we could do”.
In her case, excruciating pain from a herniated disc forced a multitude of changes – sitting down hurt so much that she “basically had to stand up all day long”, she says. Emotionally, it was a rollercoaster: “I was roiling, anxious, fragmented,” she writes.
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