10 Simple Solutions to Chronic Pain or Now That I Have Cancer I Am Whole

10 Simple Solutions to Chronic Pain: How to Stop Pain from Controlling Your Life

Author: Blake H Tearnan PhD

In many cases, traditional approaches to chronic pain-drugs, physical therapy, medical procedures-just don't work. Sufferers fritter away their lives and their saving accounts on one ineffective treatment after the next, trying to get relief from pain-but sometimes the pain never goes away. This discouraging cycle can be as damaging as pain itself. To address this problem, the most current approaches to pain management stress living well despite pain. They encourage pain sufferers to set aside their struggle with pain and learn the skills they need to keep living. Distilled from the very best of these techniques, this little book offers ten simple, effective solutions for living well with chronic pain.

First, you'll get a quick introduction to the physiology of pain. Then it's down to the business of living well: You'll learn tips for getting better sleep, ways to build a strong support system, and techniques for overcoming fear, anxiety, and depression. You'll discover better ways to communicate with doctors about their problems and find out which treatment options are likely to do them the most good. With the advice in this book, you can move from a debilitating cycle of pain to a full and rewarding life.

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Now That I Have Cancer, I Am Whole: Reflections on Life and Healing for Cancer Patients and Those Who Love Them

Author: John Robert McFarland

The Centers for Disease Control reports that more than 20 million people in the United States are currently diagnosed with cancer, and 1.4 million people will be diagnosed in the coming year. At some point in their lives, virtually everyone is touched by this disease, and every patient, survivor, family member, and friend will find hope, strength, and comfort in Now That I Have Cancer, I Am Whole.

Throughout this moving account, survivor John McFarland shares his Everyman approach to everyday life with cancer in brief meditations full of unflinching honesty, humor, and optimism. This revised edition also shares McFarland's continued relationship with cancer, seeing it through his eyes as a grandfather to one-year-old Joey, who struggles to fight a rare and ravaging form of the disease.