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For the past several years I’ve been sick, I have mostly been a pediatric patient. Slowly (and reluctantly), I’ve ventured into the “adult” world of medicine.What’s so nice about the pediatric world is that it’s butterflies and rainbows. It’s all things bright and beautiful in the midst of illness and symptoms that are the exact opposite. Children’s hospitals work exceptionally hard to make the environment sunny for kids—there’s bright lights and colors, Frozen stickers, lollipops, and sweet nur …

Pain Pain is something we cannot escape. Something I’m learning is this, my circumstances, my problems, and my difficulties are not the actual enemy I’m fighting. There is another enemy we confront daily—yet he is unseen. Someone evil, deceitful, and calculated is trying “to take us down” every single moment of every single day. He is out to get us. He’s out for defeat. He is out for blood. He wants to make our lives a living hell. And sometimes— he does. Sometimes he wins. But only if we …