I Am Tired of Every Hobby Needing to Become Content
I am tired of every hobby needing to become content. Somewhere along the way, it stopped being enough to enjoy making something. If you write, you…
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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…
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…