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“The raging burning pain was excruciating, causing me to throw up. I did however manage to remain conscious. Yay me!”

— P.A. Lupton

“...introduced Doc to the miracle of morphine. From that very first shot it was as if he'd discovered the one vital ingredient that God…

— Steve Earle

“Sometimes, just when you think you’re going to die from pain, rage steps in to save you. There’s only so much room in a…

— Elizabeth Berg

“I was on a lit path, a raging firestorm for him – all of him. My body ached for it. I had found the…

— Carlyle Labuschagne

“I should be arguing vehemently with doctors, demanding results, I should be surrounded by people who are bleeding and screaming and shocking one another…

— Dan Chaon

“Because if I ever get nailed, I don’t want you running out to get the same medicine. Believe me, if it’s you lying out…

— Henry V. O'Neil

“He found the building in front of which he had stood in the sun all day waiting to be discharged, in which the crazy…

— Douglas Woolf

“What had not changed, though, was the heroic spirit of responsibility amid blood and failure. This struck me as the true image of a…

— Paul Kalanithi

“The doctor gave him two weeks to live. I'd give him more, if I could.”

— Jack Johnson

“The doctor’s words made me understand what happened to me was a dark, evil, and shameful secret, and by association I too was dark,…

— Alyssa Reyans

“There was nothing I wanted to do more than be unconscious again, wrapped in black, gone away. I was raw. I felt swollen with…

— Gillian Flynn

“I felt it burn all the way down my throat and into my stomach. I felt like I was dying.”

— Jeannie Walker