EMBRACING PAIN

Pain and suffering are unavoidable, especially when ill, yet through understanding and compassion, we can learn to live peacefully and alter our experience of them



Krue had been suffering from systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE, or lupus, an autoimmune disease) for 10 years. As a full-time nurse in a provincial hospital, she took medications and other remedies that modern medicine could offer for a cure.

Then one day her doctor said the prognosis was within six months. Blood tests showed positive results for kidney and liver failure, and the onset of skin cancer. (More)

Source: Bangkok Post