Powering up…
Life with a deluxe Power Bar It’s still very early. I’m not 5 weeks out from finishing a seven-day ketamine infusion for the chronic pain condition I’ve lived with for the last 15 years, so I’m trying not to get ahead of myself or declare victory too soon. But something has happened that I haven’t experienced in a very, very long time. I have energy. Not “I drank a coffee and managed to get through the day” energy. I mean ACTUAL energy. The kind where you wake up and don’t immediately feel like you’ve already spent everything you have. The kind where you can do something physical and your first thought afterward isn’t, Well, I guess that’s me done for the day. And, most astonishingly of all: My pain is gone. My nociplastic and somatic pain has been at zero. Not reduced. Not “better than usual.” Zero. After more than a decade of living with pain that had become so constant that I stopped remembering what its absence felt like, I am having pain-free da...