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Your changed abilities and behaviors will force you to re-engineer your relations with others. Friends are often on the basis of shared activities, which you may no longer be able to do. Re-adapting to your family, or vice versa. It happens when you are least-well-equipped to cope with it. Tell the story of how Mary Kate, after years of having me on high morphine doses, said "Congratulations. A lot of pain patients don't emerge from this with their families intact."
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