What Chronic Illness Does to Your Sense of Time
Chronic illness and sense of time are deeply connected in ways that are hard to explain until your life starts getting measured in appointments, symptoms, test…
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Personal stories about chronic illness, appointments, tests, medications, medical systems, insurance headaches, and the strange reality of living in a body that keeps rewriting the script.
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Eight Years of “It’s Anxiety” Changes the Way You Trust Doctors
Medical trauma from being dismissed by doctors does not always come from one terrible hospital visit. Sometimes it builds slowly, appointment after appointment, every time you…
Labor Day Weekend Was Supposed to Be a Break. My Body Had Other Plans.
Labor Day weekend with chronic illness did not feel much like a three-day break this year. I went into Saturday already feeling bad, with my left…
What Online Kindergarten Actually Looks Like in Our House
Before we started online kindergarten at home, I knew I was going to be involved. She is five, so I never expected to hand her a…