The Pain Diaries: A Love Story

From the clinical pharmacist at the CHR Chronic Pain Centre:

See the brief story below but in short we are launching a play, based on a real family here at the CPC, and we are still in fund raising mode. The play is both educational and fun; yes it is written in a way so that humour plays a significant role.... and we all how important that is in health care!

Future plans for the play include publication, development of CME's / CE's based on play excerpts and integration of excerpts into undergraduate curricula for chronic pain education.

So if you could have a look, forward to someone you might think would be interested in it, buy tickets, etc it would be greatly appreciated... and I think you will enjoy it as well.

From the playwright:

Laugh or cry? When those are your only two options, wouldn’t you rather laugh?

Isabelle and Brad are living the suburban dream, soccer practices and piano lessons dominate their evenings, and dreams of retirement dominate their nights - the normal happy couple next door. And then one day they aren’t. Isabelle gets sick and their lives change forever, soccer practices become doctors appointments, retirement savings become pharmaceutical purchases and friends either help out too much or disappear altogether.

The Pain Diaries: A Love Story takes a comedic look at how lives are changed by chronic events, and how the human spirit can survive almost anything. Laugh until it hurts, there will be doctors in the house.

The Pain Diaries: A Love Story is the first play by Calgary author, Deborah Nicholson and has won a national award. Directed by David LeReaney and starring Karen Johnson Diamond.

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