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A new episode of A Body Rebels: A Chronic Illness Podcast is now available. I’ve lived with sarcoidosis for twenty years, but my wife has lived with its consequences alongside me. After forty-five years together, I’ve begun thinking about everything chronic illness has changed in our marriage, including the freedom we once enjoyed, the plans …
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A new episode of A Body Rebels: A Chronic Illness Podcast is now available. I remember my wife asking whether I still had dreams, and having no answer. Chronic illness had narrowed my attention to appointments, medications, fatigue, and getting through another day. In this episode, I reflect on living with sarcoidosis and heart failure, …
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A new episode of A Body Rebels: A Chronic Illness Podcast is now available. My dad’s birthday is coming up, and I’m remembering the humor, presence, and ordinary pleasures of the father I lost when I was thirteen. He lived with Type 1 diabetes and heart disease, and after twenty years with sarcoidosis and my …
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A new episode of A Body Rebels: A Chronic Illness Podcast is now available. Living with chronic illness brings financial costs beyond copays and prescriptions. I spend hours untangling insurance denials, prior authorizations, confusing bills, and paperwork nobody counts as work. In this episode, I talk about the energy lost to phone calls, the anxiety …
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A new episode of A Body Rebels: A Chronic Illness Podcast is now available. After my metoprolol dose increased to 200 mg, my wife and I began noticing troubling short-term memory problems. I was forgetting conversations and searching for things I had placed somewhere only moments earlier. In this episode, I share what those medication …
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