A Chronic Dose: A Chronic Illness Blog
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| Blog Name: | A Chronic Dose: A Chronic Illness Blog |
| Url: | http://achronicdose.blogspot.com/ |
| Language: | English |
| Topics: | chronic illness, chronic pain, Life Disrupted |
| Description: | Laurie is a 28-year-old writer trying to balance multiple chronic illnesses (PCD, bronchiectasis, celiac disease, etc) with, you know, the rest of my life. My book, Life Disrupted: Getting Real About Chronic Illness in Your Twenties and Thirties (Walker), is on sale now! See details below. I have a BA from Georgetown University, an MFA from Emerson College, and I teach writing courses at a local university. |
| Popularity: | 28 Followers |
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When Silence Speaks Volumes
| I read this NYT piece, Are We Going to Let John Die? the other night and am only now just getting around to linking to it. It got me riled up, and like a successful Op-Ed piece should regardless of where we stand, it made me think about the issues involved. From a research standpoint, health care reform remains on my mind these days. Right now, I’m looking at the civil rights movement, the early AIDS movement, and the disability movement and their influence on chronic illness. In terms of catalysts and goals for the chronic illness community, certainly health care reform is a significant iss |
Grateful...
| Even with my currently muted sense of smell, I can tell good things are happening in our kitchen right now. The plague of November 2009 continues to lay siege to my lungs and my productivity, which could spell trouble for the Thanksgiving dinner we are hosting. (And no, it is not H1N1; I was able to get my vaccine at a recent lung appointment.)Luckily, my husband loves to cook and knows the value of early preparation when we’re in the midst of an infection. Gluten-free corn bread is cooking, sweet potatoes are roasting for a bourbon-walnut sweet potato mash, and other assorted cass |
Tales from the Crypt…
| Contrary to a certain famous modern poet’s assertion, in my world November is the cruelest month. Okay, it’s arguably a toss up with December-February, too, but in terms of the lovely cycle of getting sick, falling behind with work, and missing family functions and/or social engagements, November is right up there with the best of them. This past weekend was no exception: the tightened chest and spastic cough of Thursday night developed into the mini-plague that prevented me from attending a long-awaited family function Sunday morning. (It’s not H1N1, though. Still hoping I avoid that long enough to get my |
On H1N1, Vaccines, and Differing Views
| I haven’t written too much about H1N1. Partially, this is because as an avid reader and headline scanner, I suffer a bit from H1N1 fatigue. From local news reports to national updates to reminders and policy talk at my job, H1N1 is everywhere. But it’s also because everyone seems to have an opinion about the H1N1 vaccine. And lately it seems I can’t go anywhere without getting a hearty dose of other people’s strong opinions about it in my face. It’s a controversial topic for many, and I get that. I respect other people’s right to make their own |
Disappointment: The Intellectual Opposite of Hope?
| When my agent was shopping my first book out to publishers, it was an incredibly tense time. I’d done all I could do to set myself up right, and now the decision was out of my hands. For a control freak like me, it was an uncomfortable position. But what made it harder was how much I felt hinged on getting this book under contract. In my mind, everything else I wanted to do depended on getting this deal for this book at this particular time. The next book I wanted to write, and the book after that, and the book after that? They could only hap |
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