Clearly there were moments of pain, when he didn't feel as whole as he wanted to, and took medicine.

I don't like taking pain medicine, so I was willing to try anything.

The way doctors are doling out pain medicine, I would tell any mother or father that when it comes to pain medicine, it's not as innocent as it sounds.

We'd been assured it wouldn't be painful, though she might experience 'discomfort,' a term beloved of the medical profession that seems to be a synonym for agony that isn't yours.

Seek for no meaning in it; it has none. What meaning is there in pain and pleasure? They are twins; that is all we know. Seek no meaning in anything you see here. Images, ideas, flashes of purpose will peer out in all our ways and deeds, but there is no intention here below. Is there any intention anywhere?

Always laugh when you can, it is cheap medicine.