I want to talk a bit about something personal that has an outsized effect on my life and work, something that affects quite a lot of people: chronic pain, and opiates.
I normally only write about this topic tangentially online, "another high pain day" or "no spoons left today" posts, and for years people have pestered me to write about my experience here, for some reason. So here it is, for better or worse. (Most of this was written in 2015, so the links are probably out of date-- but the story is the same. And 5 years later, I’m still…
