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    The Pain Project

    Pain can destroy lives. It possesses, sets the daily schedules and can be totally demanding. It devours its victims more than the worst drug addiction. Pain is not know, it is felt. Either we feel it directly, or we feel it indirectly when we watch it consume those we love. The Pain Project Article

    Thoughts From a Daughter

    There comes a time in everyone's life when there is a natural role reversal between parent and child. The "adult child" takes the reigns of the ailing parent's physical, medical, emotional care and financial responsibilities. And ultimately in this time, parent and adult child find a better understanding and respect for each other through this bond. Full Story

    Thoughts From a Mother

    There is no way to explain the emotional heart-wrenching pain we have endured over the past 17 years watching the life of our only daughter be devastated by the effects of her multiple TMJ and facial implants-implants needed to enable her to chew without excruciating pain so she could digest her food, receive nourishment-in short, to LIVE-not to be more beautiful (such as the majority of silicone breast implants who made a choice to enhance their figures). TMJ implant patients had no other choice if they wanted to survive! Full Story

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