Pain Free

In this short read, Michele Johnson shares with you from her experience how to live pain free. How you can live a full live despite having chronic pain.After being laid off from a failing telecom company, and surviving on $141 per month in food stamps, Michele found herself living in a rat and roach infested basement apartment. Despite the daily pain and fatigue of Fibromyalgia, she was denied Disability assistance and sunk deeper into depression and despair. She clung to her mother's advice like a chant."No matter what, you can always pick yourself up, brush yourself off, and start all over again."That advice played over and over as Michele explored ways to survive and conquer living with daily pain. Though her story is inspirational and motivating for anyone to read, the fascinating part to watch is how she helps patients, family members and friends to live a full life too.She's decided to bring the message out from her one on one interactions with patients in the exam room. In search of a bigger impact and opportunity to serve others struggling with daily pain, the Pain Free PA community was born.