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Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System
Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System | Sonya Huber
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Rate your pain on a scale of oneto ten. What about on a scale of spicy to citrus? Is it more like a lava lamp or a mosaic? Pain, though a universal element of human experience, is dimly understood and sometimes barely managed. Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System is a collection of literary and experimental essays about living with chronic pain. Sonya Huber moves away from a linear narrative to step through the doorway into pain itself, into that strange, unbounded reality. Although the essays are personal in nature, this collection is not a record of the author s specific condition but an exploration that transcends pain s airless and constraining world and focuses on its edges from wild and widely ranging angles. Huber addresses the nature and experience of invisible disability, including the challenges of gender bias in our health care system, the search for effective treatment options, and the difficulty of articulating chronic pain. She makes pain a lens of inquiry and lyricism, finds its humor and complexity, describes its irascible character, and explores its temperature, taste, and even its beauty. "
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beeweird
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"It's hard to know what to say. It's easy to say the wrong thing."

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"I want to hate the pain without hating my life for having pain in it." ⚡⚡⚡

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really enjoying rereading this one 📖

BarbaraTheBibliophage Oooh. I bought this and still haven‘t started. Glad to hear it‘s good! 6y
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A very insightful collection of essays about the experience of living with chronic pain. Huber uses different essay forms to discuss parenting with pain, how to describe pain (and the inability of a scale to convey “pain” to her medical team), what it is like to be a patient with chronic pain without access to coordinated care, negotiating a partnership (emotional and physical) with a lover, and how her writing changes depending on her pain level.

JoeStalksBeck I have chronic insomnia and a dr who says “ take Tylenol pm” I want to throat punch him 7y
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I read this last week and absolutely loved it. It was a great look at a life of chronic pain, specifically for a woman. At times I could relate because of my own mental issues - depression and anxiety - but at others it was informed to see the stark difference between the two. Unfortunately, the main similarity seems to be how little respect they get. #READATHONESSAYS

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I finished this one a few weeks ago & wrote a review on Goodreads but completely forgot to post about it here, so instead of trying to sum up my thoughts I'm just going to say that I absolutely loved it & post a link to my longer review if you're interested in hearing more of my thoughts you can check that out
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books read in February = 30

rereads = 8
graphic novels = 4
collections of poetry = 8
nonfiction = 6
audiobooks = 3

Well-ReadNeck Niiiiiiice! 8y
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CouronneDhiver Woohoo! Great job 8y
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DivineDiana Amazing! 👏🏻📚👏🏻 8y
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PunksteR The perfect setting 8y
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books, tea, & donuts make for a great combination 📖🍩🍵📚
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night_shift 😔😔 8y
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Erin01
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I read a great review of this the other day on bitch media & the cover really caught my eye so I decided to request a review copy on NetGalley - which I hardly ever do - and I was so excited to see my request got approved that I decided to start it this morning, I already am in the middle of a bunch of books right now but what's one more right 📖
#currentlyreading #readingallthebooks

Owlizabeth This sounds really interesting! 8y
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