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Up, Up and Away by Judith Morrison

May 15, 2022May 15, 2022 - Leave a Comment

I’m sitting in the waiting room at my nephrologist’s office and staring at the large bulletin board beside the reception desk. The board contains pictures and descriptions of various kidney …

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I Don’t Know by Lindsey Schaffer

September 21, 2020May 3, 2022 - Leave a Comment

Look both ways before crossing the street, always chew before you swallow, don’t talk to strangers. These are the first basic lessons I learned from my parents.  As I grew …

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Questions without Answers by Wendy Kennar

September 18, 2020September 18, 2020 - Leave a Comment

During dinner recently, my ten-year-old son Ryan told me his fifth-grade class was learning about communicable diseases. It was a hard word to say, and he struggled to pronounce it …

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Radiate Me

May 16, 2020May 16, 2020 - Leave a Comment

On the radiation table, there is a moment when I can see the top part of my body outlined by green light. This is not the first time this year …

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Undiagnosed by Ashley Wylie

May 16, 2020July 9, 2020 - Leave a Comment

When I was 14, I shaved one of my eyebrows off.  In an impatient attempt to become beautiful, my hand slipped. After blinking a few times in the three-way mirror, …

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Stories of Apocalypse, or Survival Fantasies by Audrey Carroll

January 20, 2020January 11, 2020 - Leave a Comment

Advantage: I am a student of the Earth, reading old folklore about which herbs help rheumatism, investigating bird species and their usual habitat ranges. Understanding patterns doesn’t require anything but …

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I Do Not Talk About Spoons by Rachael Dickzen

January 13, 2020January 11, 2020 - Leave a Comment

They say a person with chronic illness only has so many spoons to get through each day. Each action, each sentence, each movement takes a spoon away, and when the …

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Before or After the Fall

September 19, 2019September 20, 2019 - Leave a Comment

By Kelli C. Trinoskey Next to my desk at work, there is a picture of me with my three daughters standing in front of stone formations of South Dakota’s Badlands. …

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Health in the Hands of the People

September 8, 2019September 8, 2019 - Leave a Comment

By Marissa Spear Point six of the Black Panther Party’s 1972 iteration of the Ten-Point Program clearly states: We want “completely free health care for all black and oppressed people.”[1] …

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What Haven’t We Tried?

May 28, 2019June 7, 2019 - Leave a Comment

After you turned sixteen and your body came into its own and I said you looked voluptuous and your father said you were getting a bit broad in the beam; …

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