Problems, unqualified and undisclaimed.

[commodorified]

I realised tonight that I have, basically, been in pain for twenty years.

I have all sorts of thoughts about this, but I'm too sore, tired, medicated, and angry to make anything coherent out of them

ETA: But, in a nutshell — probably a hideously non-ergonomic nutshell with no padding for my hip — people in chronic pain need, basically, doulas.

Comments

Re: Linguistic evolution

[perennialanna]

It's a profession here too, but I think the relative newness is why the "What is a Doula?" sections of websites usually start with something along the lines of "Doula is a Greek word meaning "woman servant or caregiver"" (Doulas UK website).

Still, whilst in many ways it falls into ancillary care, presumably someone at some point spotted that ancilla is so often translated handmaid that perhaps we'd better not go there.

Re: Linguistic evolution

[commodorified]

Yeah, I can see the vexedness.