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Pain: the gift nobody wants.

Life is better when we treat pain with the respect it deserves

Ruth Estelle
4 min readAug 1, 2019

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A recent stint of surgery reminded me that pain has a very real purpose.

Having been cut open then stitched up in a three and a half hour operation I was pretty enthusiastic about the pain-relief on offer afterwards.

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