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A new episode of A Body Rebels: A Chronic Illness Podcast is now available. In my one hundredth episode, I end up in the emergency room after seeing blood in my urine during Labor Day weekend. I walk through the way I handled the night, from researching possible causes to arriving with twenty years of …
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Vanity is a funny thing. You think you’ve outgrown it until sarcoidosis hands you tubing, batteries, and a mirror you didn’t ask for. Looking back from 2026, I can tell you this: the hardest prescriptions aren’t the pills. They’re the ones that make you visible—and force you to decide what staying alive is worth.
A new episode of A Body Rebels: A Chronic Illness Podcast is now available. My health has reached a point where pushing through no longer works. In this short episode, I explain why I’m ending Season Four early and taking the rest of September away from the podcast. I need my limited energy for treatment, …
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You know that moment when the doctor confidently hands you a prescription like it’s a golden ticket back to Normal Person Land—no questions, no footnotes, just “take this twice a day forever” and try not to die in the meantime? Yeah. In my early sarcoidosis era (back when I was younger, more trusting, and still believed “the system” had my back), I learned the hard way that the danger isn’t always the pill… sometimes it’s what you’re sipping while you swallow it. And the culprit was sitting in my fridge, looking innocent and delicious.
A new episode of A Body Rebels: A Chronic Illness Podcast is now available. In this episode of A Body Rebels: A Chronic Illness Podcast, I talk about exercise while living with heart failure, sarcoidosis, and severe fatigue after movement. A walk feels good while I’m outside, then the real cost shows up at home …
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