To the Doctors Who Couldn’t “Fix” Me, Thank You!

Pain made itself at home in my body sometime in my forties. Those who are quick to blame my trail and ultra running practice as “too much” and, therefore, the cause of my pain should note that my pain began years before I even knew there was such a thing as an Ultramarathon. I used to be embarrassed to admit that I suffer from chronic, unexplainable pain in my body. Every doctor I visited (starting two decades ago) gave me a diagnosis from the point of view of their narrow specialty. It was the classic hammer-and-nail analogy.