Category: On Being Sick
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Trumpcare will kill us.
Hannah Facknitz gave these comments at the vigil for healthcare reform in front of the courthouse on June 28, 2017. The event was hosted by Brent Finnegan who is running for the House of Delegates in the 26th District. You can learn more about the vigil and hear Hannah and…
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Everything Hurts & I’m Dying.
It’s so hard to describe a migraine. People understand pain, but I’m not sure people really understand this pain. Your brain isn’t built to experience pain. Your scalp and the nerves & muscle beneath, but not your brain, and yet, that’s what this is. Everything around you becomes surreal, colors…
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When the Care You Need is Illegal
At the end of May, Buzzfeed Health shared this video about Kelsey’s search for and experience with medical marijuana for coping with her trigeminal neuralgia. I have a neuropathy condition similar to TN that is unresponsive to medication and requires monthly (and extremely painful) nerve blocks, and even those don’t…
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Fasting from Self-Hatred
My point is that fasting takes a multitude of forms. Even atheists will fast during Lent. Lent has become so vast and divergent that I have struggled to discern its purpose for many years.
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The Coming Storm
The first thing I thought when I woke up on November 9th was that I may not survive his presidency. I wanted to tell myself I was overreacting or caught up in the emotion of this loss, but I couldn’t. I knew that Donald Trump may kill me, and very…
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It’s been a bad day.
Today is a day to own up to not making it. Today I wanted to kick and scream and cry and sleep through everything I possibly could. I went for sleep. Thankfully, it was more groaning and whimpering than kicking and screaming. Although, I think my mom would prefer the…
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Sensory Deprivation
That’s the reality. If I were to wake up on May 9th, 2013 and get a phone call telling me not to come in to RMH Rheumatology—all my blood work was normal, nothing wrong, I’m the picture of health—I would hang up the phone and go on with my life.
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