My emotional baseline could only be described as ‘wound tighter than a clock with a chance of tears’. I could either tell you to fuck off and walk away or go grab a bag of Skittles and cry while I watch Jersey Shore reruns. One never …
Tag: chronic illness
I Hate To Be The Bearer Of Bad News
One day, in the beginning of this whole mess, I was lying in my bed anxiously awaiting a call from my oncologist. It’s a funny thing when you’re awaiting biopsy results. You want them, but you also kind of don’t. The phone finally rang. I was …
All Because I Got Sick
This will be my third attempt at writing this post. I’ve had two other drafts waiting for me to finish and edit, but neither of them felt right. That’s how it goes for me. That’s how I know I want to send one of my works …
The ABC’s Of Sick Advice
Aside from a jacked up thyroid gland and a stomach that was sometimes a bit disagreeable, I was a fairly healthy individual before my desmoid tumor diagnosis in 2012. I had no clue what it was like to be seriously ill, nor how to deal the …
I Need To Tell You
One day, lamenting the fact that my hands were in so much pain I could not finish coloring a page in my snazzy new adult coloring book, I was met with this unsolicited advice: My hands hurt, too, but I just take my time and if …
A Wallow Will Do You Good
In middle school, the only thing that dominated my life more than acne was Wham!’s smash album, Make It Big. The seemingly ceaseless wailing of the saxophone solo on their hit ballad Careless Whisper transports me back in time. Nobody, and I mean NOBODY, can mourn …
Humanity Might Want to Consider a Social Media Detox
If you are one of the approximately half dozen friends that I guilted into reading this piece then you know that I was recently sick for a decent chunk of time. Were you the type of person that finds hot flashes, dizzy spells, nausea, fatigue, diarrhea, …
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