"How much pain medication are you taking?"

That was the very routine question that changed my life.

It was July 2015,

about two months after I nearly lost my foot

in a serious motorcycle accident.

So

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What does it mean to be normal?

And what does it mean to be sick?

I've asked myself this question from the time I was about seven,

when I was diagnosed with Tourette syndrome.

Tourette's is a neurolog

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For the past 24 years, I have been a firefighter

in Huntington, West Virginia.

As firefighters, my team and I are tasked with saving lives

and property

from such disasters as car wrecks, house fires

a

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More than 3,000 years ago, a flower began to appear in remedies

in Ancient Egyptian medical texts.

Across the Mediterranean, the ancient Minoans

likely found ways to use the same plant for its high

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until april 14 1989

i was living american dream i happily

married

son and my daughter nice cars went on

vacations

we had a 17-foot christmas tree every

year uh

you know people call this the griswolds

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ah

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we rarely think about one of the most

important things that we do

breathing it's a mostly involuntary

mechanism

but the average human being can

voluntarily hold t

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