FROM THE FRONTLINES OF THE WAR ON KRATOM
KIM LIBBY-EVANS In 2002, I was employed as a credentialer in a hospital when I was diagnosed with CRPS -- also known as "the suicide disease." It quickly spread throughout my body and, by the end of 2003, it was systemic. I was in debilitating pain 100% of the time. I had two spinal cord stimulators and an intrathecal Dilaudid pain pump implanted and was also taking huge quantities of prescribed narcotic pain medications, which got me by for many years. But I was confined to my motorized wheelchair and/or bed full-time, and had to wear continuous oxygen. At the same time, my children were growing up and, I'm embarrassed to say, I missed out on huge chunks of their childhoods as a result.
