Kathleen (@kathleenfarrell_9678) and Tom (@tomgregg ), I think you both (for different reasons) might be interested in this excellent essay by Kelly Davio from Roxane Gay’s “Unruly Bodies” series. It starts off as a story about how Kelly, who suffers from a chronic disease, imagined running a marathon, but it’s also about chronic pain management and opioids.

https://medium.com/s/unrulybodies/the-body-that-cant-run-marathons-295d89f2a9a0