When I was 10 my brother died. It was my first major grief process and unsurprisingly it has stuck with me through the years. One thing...

Early in 2016 I found myself strapped to a table waiting to be tilted until I passed out. It sounds like a medieval torture device but it...

I keep seeing this thing in medical discourse about risks, specifically risks of death. It’s phrased something like this: “most of the...

In Pennsylvania, where I live, we have been on some version of a lockdown for the last 5 months or so. People have responded to these...

Americans have, on the whole, been asked to stay home for the time being. The goal of this is to slow down the spread of the COVID-19...

We have been asked to practice social distancing to try to “flatten the curve” of the COVID-19 virus. What this means for most of us...

COVID-19 was recently declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) and many states and counties are limiting gatherings of...

I’ve spent much of the last 8 years in 'the land of the sick.' 8 years ago is when I started having chronic illness symptoms that greatly...