Pain Is Pain

Nisha Kumar Kulkarni
Nov 4 · 6 min read

Since being diagnosed with trigeminal neuralgia (TN), my mom has been my emotional hotline. I have had more conversations with her — a wise, compassionate, retired nurse — about chronic illness and pain than I can count. Something she says punctuates each and every single one of those chats: “Pain is pain. No one can understand your pain except you.”

Pain is wholly personal

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Nisha Kumar Kulkarni

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