Fall off your bike, get a band aid. Have a headache, take an ibuprofen. Pain is often fleeting…and there’s a cure. But what happens when pain is constant with no quick fix? Fibromyalgia is talked about a lot more lately and that's thanks to celebrities like Lady Gaga Morgan Freeman and Sinead O’Connor sharing their stories. North Falmouth based artist, Terie Michon is also trying to get the word out. She’s developed her own pain relieving routine that’s anything but the norm.
This piece came to us from our production partners at Atlantic Public Media through their media training program, The Transom Story Workshop in Woods Hole. Rachel Ishikawa is a graduate of the workshop and you can find out more about that program at Transom.org
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