You can’t see as many doctors as I have without having the odd bad time, but it doesn’t happen often, which is why I wasn’t expecting it when it happened. It was a visit to the doctor who handles my pain meds who I have to see every three months so he can check on […]
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Rheumatoid Arthritis was the cataclysmic event that shattered my structural geography. Whereas before my body had been one smooth young continent – I was only twenty-one when I got sick, after all – illness and pain broke me apart. Unless you have a chronic condition, especially one involving pain, you can’t understand how it changes […]
I grew up in a body-shaming religion so I’m used to it; it’s in my cells to be ashamed when my body breaks down, or gets ill, or has needs. My father raised us in the Christian Science religion, which is based on the belief that since God is perfect, and He created us in […]