Paula Abdul and Chronic Pain

There's an article about Paula Abdul and her struggle with chronic pain on ABCNews.com

There has been speculation that some of Paula's loopy behavior has been caused by using pain meds. As someone that has been around a chronic pain suffer, it's not a joke. I'm incapacitated when I get a hangnail, so I have a lot of admiration for someone that can function while in that level of pain.