Status Updates From Incurable Optimist: Living ...

This writer is so funny/refreshing

“A team of nurses placed a plastic board under me and slipped me into the bed. I slid over like a fried egg out of a nonstick pan.”

“A team of doctors and residents came marching into my room to examine my incision. As I lifted my hospital gown to expose the fresh scar, the group stood over me and stared quietly, like they were viewing the Mona Lisa.”

“1. Hindsight and memories alchemized with guilt. Everything I had done before was subject to reinterpretation through the lens of illness. Even the word—autoimmune—implies the self as the culprit.”