I’m Not Lazy…I’m in Pain

Photo by Yuris Alhumaydy on Unsplash

I follow Shannon Ashley on Medium and this post really hit home:

https://medium.com/honestly-yours/its-so-hard-to-talk-about-pain-d721abfd8e05

I’ve been dealing with pain for most of my adult life. It started when I was a young RN. In the 1960s-1970s there were few ways that patients were transferred from bed to stretcher or bed to wheelchair without the use of a nurse’s strong back and since I…