Victory over chronic pain.

From: St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, MO) | Date: August 17, 2007 | Copyright information

Byline: Harry Jackson Jr.

ST. LOUIS, Mo. _ Debi Stanley, 39, didn't recognize the person looking back from her mirror three years ago. The face was the same, but the spirit was gone, eaten away by a parasite called chronic pain. The pain in her back and hips had all but wrecked her life.

"This wasn't me," said Stanley, of St. Charles, Mo. "And I had three children who had only seen me living in pain. There were days I couldn't get out of bed," she said. "It tore at my marriage. I'm a stay-at-home mom, and I was relying on my husband to do what I would normally be doing."

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