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Henriette Ivanans is the author of The Pillness Trilogy: "In Pillness and in Health", Big G and Me" , and "Are You There, Judy Blume? It's Me: Henriette." "Pillness" is available in Spain as "Hasta Que Las Pastillas Nos Separen (O No)."

Ivanans is a two-time kidney-transplanted, sober woman and occasional actor. She lives in Winnipeg with her living donor and mensch, Kevin, and their dog Jack. She will interrupt you mid-sentence if she sees a dog.

She is currently working on her next book, "Dog-Shaped Hole: What My Dogs Taught Me About Alcoholism."
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Henriette Ivanans My daily struggle with chronic pain inspires me to write. Writing takes the power out my body's limitations. When I can articulate it, share it and fi…moreMy daily struggle with chronic pain inspires me to write. Writing takes the power out my body's limitations. When I can articulate it, share it and find others who are suffering, I get relief. I feel empowered.(less)
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Henriette Ivanans, Are You There, Judy Blume? It's Me, Henriette

“Oh, sweetheart. I am sure you don’t have lupus.” I squeezed the wheel, frustrated. It was the comment I loved to love / hate. Kevin offering something I so badly wanted to be true, something he would do anything to facilitate, but ultimately had no control over. A comment rooted not in the fertile soil of fact, but in the fickle terrain of magical thinking.”
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“Maybe the death of a loved one is so embedded into the shredded fabric of our heart, that to peel it back and look, really look, would eviscerate what was left. Who would want to do that to their heart? Maybe it was enough to have one person with the same experience say, “I see you. Your pain is my pain.”
Henriette Ivanans, Big G and Me

“At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless;
Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is,
But neither arrest nor movement. And do not call it fixity,
Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards,
Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point,
There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.”
T.S. Eliot

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