Personal Stories
Pain — A poem by Dinah Milsom
April 25 , 2018
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Dinah Milsom, poet and supporter of Pain Concern, has written a poem expressing her experiences with pain.
She asked us to post this on our website so other people in pain may read it.
Pain
The light glows
The heart knows
This pain endures
And so I make ...
Ruth Tickner
January 10 , 2014
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Ruth Tickner describes how pain ‘crept up on her’ over the course of several years and the blind alleys and frustrations she had to face before beginning to rebuild confidence in her body and faith in her future
Pain crept up on me. I have a significant mobility ...
The Ellis Family
May 14 , 2013
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Tom Ellis developed chronic pain after falling on ice. His father Richard describes how the family pulled together to get through their ‘year from hell’
At the start of 2012 the nation was full of optimism, anticipation and great expectation for the forthcoming year: a year that would ...
Kiera Jones
February 04 , 2013
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At the age of 24, Kiera Jones’ career as a scientist was abruptly disrupted by the onset of chronic wrist pain. She tells us about the frustrations of the condition and how she is gradually finding ways to work around it to get her career back on ...