Dr. Sanjay Gupta

Thank you for always taking the time to listen, encourage and offer stellar suggestions for how to make this book the best it could be.

And for the millions of people out there with chronic pain, I know it presents you with profound challenges, often invisible to others.

I wrote this book for you to share your stories and my confidence that together we can chart a path beyond pain, a path of action, hope, and healing.

I mean, you know, she's my wife.

You know, we've been married forever now.

We've known each other for a long time.

And

Um, I've been a doctor for a long time and I think with my wife and my mom, pain came home.

It came to visit my house.

And, you know, I think I've always tried to treat my patients like family, but at the same time, like watching the ones that you love and you spend all this time with.

So you really know them and you know how they are and you know their personalities and you see pain hijack their lives, right?

hijack their identity.

And you're like, that's not the person I know.

And you know, it's pain talking, not them.

I think that was tough.

But I think at the same time, I think our greatest joy sometimes now come in overcoming things, rising above.

And I think in some ways, not that I wish that she had gone through what she went through, just like I don't wish that you had gone through what you went through, but she's doing great.

It took a while.

I still remember when it sort of started in my mind for her because she had sort of been talking about it.

But you keep thinking, oh, this is just a thing that'll go away in a little bit.