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Insatiable: A Life Without Eating
When my Crohn’s disease took away food, it took what it means to be human.
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The Favourite Patient
“But when it comes to my doctors, not only do I want them to like me—I want them to like me the most. I want to be the favourite patient.”
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Slow Death and Labored Breath: Listening To, Listening Through Inheritance
“Remission is life with an asterisk; conditional.”
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women
Inking Against Invisibility
In the face of chronic pain, invisible illness, and medical discrimination, Talia Hibbert turned to tatoos to reclaim ownership of her body.
Posted inBooks, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
Surviving the Shattering of My Mind and My Marriage
Andrea J. Buchanan contemplates the way illness and pain can freeze a sufferer in time, as if encased in glass.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
In a World Full of Cruelty and Injustice, Becoming a Mother Anyway
A visit to Auschwitz makes Eliza Margarita Bates only more determined to have a baby, despite her painful chronic illness.
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Maybe It’s Lyme: What Happens When Illness Becomes an Identity?
Molly Fischer dives deep into the growing culture of “chronic Lyme,” a sort of wild West where a proliferation of unconventional approaches to diagnosis and treatment contradict the medical establishment’s contention that, despite some possible lasting symptoms, Lyme is not chronic; and where sufferers find identity and community.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
Wrestling With the Ghosts In My Head
Janet Steen tries to understand the shifting causes behind a decade of mysterious migraine pain.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Story
The Inward Empire
A new father with early-stage MS sets out to understand the interiors of his daughter’s mind, and his own.