Expectation vs. Reality
By Evelyn Benvie Artist statement: From my experience, when you have a chronic illness, everyone around you expects you to still just press on. Be the good little engine that could, …
Read MoreMonth: August 2018
Medusa in the Emergency Room
By Cade Leebron Call me Curly-Q for the swirled snake IV line spiraling out of my upper arm. Nothing perfect ever ends, or that’s a lie I’m okay hanging out …
Read More
Link Roundup: August 24th, 2018
Hi all! It’s Jay. I do a link roundup every Friday and this is the fifth one. If you encounter a link you think I might want to share, please …
Read More
Equifinality
By Sarah Boon I have a three-inch scar on my left forearm, winding thin and white across my yellow-brown skin. The dog who gave it to me, with his childlike …
Read More
Sugar, Sugar
By Annie Wood Annie Wood created “Sugar, Sugar” (part of the “Sugar” series) using mixed media, including Diabetic test strips. Find her at anniewood.com, Instagram, twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest. Contact her …
Read More
Putting the Cart Before the Horse
By Nicole Storey I was a blackbird for Halloween when those shapeshifters came out of the terraforming colony and explained that destiny is only a mile away from the gas …
Read More
Link Roundup: August 17th, 2018
Hi all! It’s Jay. I plan on doing a link roundup every Friday and this is the fourth one. If you encounter a link you think I might want to …
Read More
Ain’t That Somethin’
by Noah Kirby Water would be nice, you think. But the nurse wasn’t asking you, she was asking your father. He lies there dying of cancer, but all you can …
Read More
In Conversation: Exercising with Chronic Illness
Jay: I recently wrote an essay about exercising with chronic illness for MTV Fit and that led to us talking about the topic. The basic issue I face is that …
Read More
Mystery Diagnoses and The Big Sick
By Annalise Mabe Last September, my stomach began to ache in a new pain–a more severe pain than I’ve ever known. While I’ve had Crohn’s disease for ten years, I …
Read More