“Remission is life with an asterisk; conditional.”
chronic illness
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.
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.
In a World Full of Cruelty and Injustice, Becoming a Mother Anyway
In this personal essay, a visit to Auschwitz makes Eliza Margarita Bates only more determined to have a baby, despite her painful chronic illness.
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.
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.
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.
Wrestling With the Ghosts In My Head
Janet Steen tries to understand the shifting causes behind a decade of mysterious migraine pain.
The Inward Empire
A new father with early-stage MS sets out to understand the interiors of his daughter’s mind, and his own.
A New Yorker, and a Sick Person
In an excerpt from her memoir, Sick, Porochista Khakpour recalls fashioning herself after her artist aunt’s example.