All in Your Head: Making Sense of Pediatric Pain Was it an international gang

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who died in her mother's arms just a few hours after she was born

She's exhausted with the responsibilities of making everything work on an island where nothing ever does

embodying the paradox of sitting in grief while being determined to survive beyond it

All in Your Head: Making Sense of Pediatric Pain Was it an international gangAlthough pain is a universal human experience, many view the pain of others as private, resistant to language, and, therefore, essentially unknowable. And, yet, despite the obvious limits to comprehending another's internal state, language is all that we have to translate pain from the solitary and unknowable to a phenomenon richly described in literature, medicine, and everyday life. Without denying the private dimensions of pain, All in Your Head