The ketamine hit Renee Burdge, a 47-year-old mother of three, with a jolt. Like an elevator floor falling out from beneath her.
“It was like a weight, and a drop, and then everything would kind of smooth out into what I would describe as the euphoric experience — which I can't really describe to you because there’s no way to describe it,” she said.
Gone was the chronic pain that had bounded the call center worker's life up to that moment. Instead, as a diluted mixture of saline solution and the anesthetic flowed into her through an IV, words associated with her desire to become a life coach appeared in front of her.