It can sometimes be tough to talk about, but addiction is an issue that impacts every community across the country.
On a day when itâs 70 degrees and sunny outside, it’s all Kevin Brawley can do to sit on his front porch.
“I’m treated like an addict,â said Brawley. âThey say I’m medically dependent.â
A tree trimmer by trade Brawley was legally disabled after an accident that took place more than two decades ago.
“I broke my neck working for a tree company,â said Brawley. âThe ladder came 50 feet out of the air and hit me straight in the top of the head. It broke my neck. It blew five discs in my upper back, two or three in my lower back, and it jammed my spine into my sacrum.”
Over the years he’s been prescribed opioids to manage the pain.
“I’ve dealt with it pretty well for the last 25 years because I had the medicine to do it,â said Brawley. âNothing ever took it away, but it made it feasible for me to get out and do stuff. Now I’ve lost everything. I lay in bed or on the couch. I don’t get out of the house unless I have to.”
In 2016, the CDC revised prescription guidelines to try and avoid opioid abuse.
“The people making these laws have probably never been in pain a day in their life much less 24/7 like I deal with,â said Brawley.
“We do a really poor job as providers with managing chronic pain and with managing opioid use disorder,â said Dr. Kanika Cunningham.
Dr. Cunningham specializes in addiction and she said there were unintended consequences for those with chronic pain.
“It did cause a lot to either immediately cut people off the opioid in which people then turned to the black market and heroin,â said Dr. Cunningham. âPeople went into withdrawal symptoms. A lot took place.”
“People are committing suicide every day because they can’t take the pain no more,â said Brawley. âI think about it. I think about it every day.”
While there are compassionate care clauses both Brawley and Dr. Cunningham agree it’s time to eliminate the one-size-fits-all approach.
“We definitely need to make some changes in how we approach chronic pain,â said Dr. Cunningham.
“All we want to do is live a half normal life,â said Brawley.
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In 2012 Courtney Cassadyâs last hope was the Pediatric Pain Rehabilitation Program at Mayo Clinic.
I had a doctor come in and tell me Iâd never walk again and that Iâd need amputation of my leg.
That was the hardest thing that I heard through this journey.
Nearly two-years earlier Courtney broke her left ankle while practicing with her varsity basketball team.
The pain would not go away.
It kind of started with just my foot, but then it went a little. It was just mostly below my knee, you just couldnât touch my leg, it was so painful if I bumped up against something, I would cry.
Courtney was diagnosed with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), a chronic pain condition.
I tried physical therapy, occupational therapy, a chiropractor, even acupuncture.
We tried everything I was on different medications and nothing seemed to be working at all.
A doctor told Courtney she might never walk again and may need to amputate her leg.
Mayo was the best place, it was the last place, it was kind of scary also to know that I had gotten to that point, that there really wasnât another option after Mayo.
Courtney was able to walk again after 4 ½ weeks and completing around a hundred hours of physical therapy at Mayo Clinic.
(Courtney walking down a hallway) Who is this? Who is this? It doesnât look like the same girl anymore. Itâs Courtney, yea! I can walk, yea!
Amen.
It was so, so difficult so, so difficult and I wouldnât want to re-live it but I was one of the most rewarding things because I was able to beat the odds, the doctors who told me I couldnât and everything and I got to show them wrong, with the support of all the staff from Mayo behind me.
(Courtney shoots a basketball) What you doing Court’?
Itâs so cool because the lord has used it in ways that I cannot have even imagined. All from a simple fracture, from a basketball game.
Itâs so cool because I had an end goal when I was going to through the Pain Rehabilitation Program and thereâs this mission trip to New York City.
I got to meet that goal and I got to go and thereâs a verse in the bible Romans 10:15 and it says how are they to preach unless they are sent. How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news. And its so cool because the Lord has been able to use my feet literally and figuratively.
Courtney credits a regular exercise regimen for helping her maintain the momentum she gained at Mayo Clinic.
I am 110% back to normal, I get to go work out, I walk to class, Iâm a student at the University of Oklahoma, and I walk to class, all fine and no pain. I hang out with friends. I dance, I run around like a four miles or so. I am working up to a half marathon.
Courtney advises other young people to put their whole heart into completing the program. She is forever grateful to the people who helped her.
I love you guys, thank you for all those hard times and thank you for not giving up. Maybe if one of the people that helped me gave up on me I wouldnât be where I am today and because of that I would like to say thank you. Thank you for all that youâve done and all that you do for all the other patients. Youâre changing lives and you donât even know it Video Rating: / 5
