April 2019 | Relapse

Pain in the neck

At eight months sober, he got a prescription—but his disease was three steps ahead

September weather in Wisconsin is usually a crapshoot. But it was a glorious September morning when I awoke in 2004 with severe pain in my neck. So debilitating was the pain that my wife had to summon family members to help me out of bed and into the car for a trip to the emergency room. 

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