Pain & Pray

Tonight I watched a TV show I had taped from PBS Nova, “How does the brain work?”. For the last few years I had a major interest in neuroscience, the scientific study of the nervous system. Neuroscience is an infant science but the brain holds the key to much understanding of how the body and mind works.

With my son, mother and father having various forms of brain diseases, from Alzheimer to Schizo-affective disorder, motivates me to learn how the brain operates. Study of the brain can bring new cues to many illnesses.

Cue of brain disorders cannot come too soon for my friend, Ann. She has been suffering from severe pain for about four or five years now. She has gone through four surgeries, two procedures and many doctors and is still in constant pain. After many diagnosis doctors are now calling it Fibromyalgia, a medical disorder characterized by chronic widespread pain and allodynia, a heightened and painful response to pressure. It is a nervous system disorder for which there is not cue. For my friend now all there is left is control of the pain. So far medication,therapy and an internal pain pump has not worked. She can be very depressed and tired at times and wish she would die; but her faith sustains her. Although she is unable to attend church she has strengthen her faith through visits from friends, spiritual reading and listening and, most of all, by prayer. When she says she will pray for you or “God bless you” you really feel the blessings and prayers are working.

Most of all have had moments of intense pain but to live in pain, like my friend, is hard to imagine. Persons who live in pain pay and pray for the rest of us.

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