Citas de Marni Jackson

• Breastfeeding is an unsentimental metaphor for how love works, in a way. You don’t decide how much and how deeply to love - you respond to the beloved, and give with joy exactly as much as they want.

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  Love You, Giving, Joy

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• La maternidad es como Albania: no puedes fiarte de las descripciones de los libros, tienes que ir allí.

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  Mom, Mother, Book

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• Why are we, the most medicalized of societies, a culture in pain?

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  Pain, Culture, Injury

  Marni Jackson (2012). “Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign”, p.5, A&C Black

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• These doctors, who had long experience with people in pain in addition to their traditional training and schooling, had discovered that nothing happens without communication, treatment based on evidence of outcome, and what used to be called a good bedside manner.

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  Pain, Communication, Doctors

  Marni Jackson (2012). “Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign”, p.122, A&C Black

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• There seems to be a hole in the culture where mothers went. Then, when their kids went off to school or stopped having ear infections every three weeks, they emerged from the mother zone, and like everyone else, they forgot where they'd been. Amnesia surrounding motherhood is the rule, not the exception.

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  Madre, Escuela, Niños

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• When a couple turns domestic, for the first while having to talk about the need for aluminum eaves troughing and other matters only gets in the way of the relationship. Then, magically, these negotiations take the place of the relationship.

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  Marriage, Couple, Needs

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• It wasn't just that my breasts were sore and my legs seethed with restlessness at night. A knitted cap seemed to have settled on my brain as well. Never think that pregnancy is just a spare room in a woman's house; it changes everything - the heat, the light, the furniture.

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  Pregnancy, Night, Thinking

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• This is a truism of child-raising, of course - whatever you give special time and attention to cooking, your children will despise and reject, with annoying gagging sounds.

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  Children, Giving, Cooking

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• When a mother comes home with her new baby, she will find her abstractions are all concrete now. 'Freedom' now means being able to take a shower. 'Mobility' means being able to reach the glass of water on the dresser while not breaking the baby's suction on the breast. 'Flexibility' means being able to push the Record function on the VCR without dropping the baby.

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  Mother, Baby, Mean

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• Housework hassles go on, are never resolved, and will probably extend into the afterlife ('Why am I the one who takes the clouds to the dry cleaners?').

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  Clouds, Afterlife, Goes On

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• At a certain point, the soul exits from a cherished photograph, because we have come to the end of our loving projection into that moment.

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  Soul, Exit, Moments

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• Todavía podía recordar cómo tener un bebé de dos días te hace sentir una ligera lástima por todos los demás, atrapados en sus poco milagrosas vidas.

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  Inspirational, Baby, Sorry

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• Well, delusions are a wonderful thing, and they keep you company, too.

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  Wonderful, Delusion, Wells

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• Hasn't anyone thought to look at outcomes as a logical way to figure out what really works? Not until recently. That tells you how far out of the picture the patient has been.

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  Pain, Looks, Outcomes

  Marni Jackson (2012). “Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign”, p.122, A&C Black

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• Los vacíos domésticos aparecen en ciclos irregulares, como las lluvias de meteoritos. Pero el verdadero signo de una mala racha es que nunca parece temporal o solucionable. Es algo inevitable. Se te pasa por la cabeza que cuando el amor se va, se va de golpe y para siempre.

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  Marriage, Forever, Mind

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• If Jeff Mogil and Ron Melzack are right about genetics and pain, fifty years from now, generic Tylenol tablets will seem as quaint to us as a bottle of sarsaparilla tonic. Instead, we'll take our genotype ID bracely to the local genopharmacologist to order some bespoke pharmaceuticals. Or we may rise at four A.M. to meditate on the part of our nature that is painful and feel better for it. Along with social insurance, we'll carry geno-cards that list our predispositions: photosensitivity, osteoporosis, and poor response to codeine.

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  Pain, Feel Better, Order

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• Every time I caught a fish, I wondered how something so small could have such clear, pure strength. It kept reminding me of another sensation, from another realm. The fish on the line, I eventually realized, felt like the baby, kicking inside you. Or the shocking, life-hungry pull of the baby on the breast. Perhaps fishing is like quickening for men, a long and patient wait for a few electric moments when they feel connected to another life.

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  Baby, Men, Fishing

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• The first axiom of the family vacation is that someone, possibly everyone, will get sick.

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  Family, Vacation, Sick

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• Addiction might be redefined not as a character flaw but as a "biochemical deficit management." Our emotional habits will become an accepted factor of good health, along with slogans like "Heartache can be harmful to your unborn children."

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  Children, Pain, Character

  Marni Jackson (2012). “Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign”, p.348, A&C Black

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• Like an animal, cancer sleeps, prowls, hibernates, turns surly or placid.

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  Cancer, Sleep, Animal

  Marni Jackson (2003). “Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign”, p.311, A&C Black

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• Simple intervention - the time spent with a patient - is a very powerful ingredient of the patient-doctor contract. The evidence is against the traditions such as surgery for back pain being true - the evidence says it doesn't work.

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  Pain, Powerful, Simple

  Marni Jackson (2012). “Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign”, p.122, A&C Black

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• Home alone with a wakeful newborn, I could shower so quickly that the mirror didn't fog and the backs of my knees stayed dry. The one-minute hair conditioner was too slow for me.

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  Home, Mirrors, Hair

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• Given the ... multidisciplinary philosophy, I was surprised by the absence of alternative pain approaches - the whole spectrum of cranial-sacral massage, healing-touch therapy, and other hands-on skills that are a lifeline to many people with chronic pain. Alternative therapie are hard to evaluate, but that's no reason not to explore them.

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  Pain, Philosophy, Healing

  Marni Jackson (2002). “Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign”, Crown Pub

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