Sarah > Recent Status Updates

"Not a Delusion"

Can we agree, doctor, that even an illness
with no discernable etiology is no one's fault?
I'm not sick because of my sheer willfulness
and victim-blaming by the healthy is an assault.
...
my self isn't a virus from which I must recover.

Joy is my true nature but this illness cuts tot he quick.
Self-care is all to to the good, yes, but I am still sick.

12%. 1/13

Hurrah for a heroine with chronic pain, but this person is on her 5th world-class specialist in 2 years. People with chronic illness are lucky to get a *diagnosis* in 3-7 years. Waiting lists are too long to be able to see that many specialists in that time— I had to wait 14 months to get my immunologist, and it has been 2.5 yrs since my rheumatologist referral was sent, no intake appointment yet scheduled.

I can’t get enough of this!

DNF 10/31 @ 25%

Water danger during lake swimming trips has me going thru physical ARCs at a faster-than-usual pace. Don’t care if it gets wet!

1:06:49

Maybe my brain is organized by the Dewey decimal system, but right now all the sleeves seem to be on fire.

1:09:45

Stayed up until past 1am reading the first half in one big gulp. Absorbing.

See corn 30.1% and chiles 29.3%