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A new episode of A Body Rebels: A Chronic Illness Podcast is now available. In this episode of A Body Re-bells: A Chronic Illness Podcast, I respond to a listener living with pulmonary sarcoidosis, depression, family estrangement, and the loss of friendships after diagnosis. I talk about what friendship looks like when illness stops being …
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A new episode of A Body Rebels: A Chronic Illness Podcast is now available. On A Body Re-bells: A Chronic Illness Podcast, I tell the story of an injured mouse and Prince, my strong old cat who refused to look old. Prince was already in his late teens when our strange nighttime rescue unfolded. He …
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A new episode of A Body Rebels: A Chronic Illness Podcast is now available. I’ve spent much of my life becoming good at things, from school to culinary training to massage work, yet skill never answered a harder question for me: what do I love for myself? Chronic illness filled so much of my time …
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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.