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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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A new episode of A Body Rebels: A Chronic Illness Podcast is now available. Living with chronic illness changes what an ordinary to-do list means. My iPhone reminders might show a phone call, an errand, or a message, while leaving out the fatigue, brain fog, symptoms, recovery time, and decisions surrounding each task. In this …
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A new episode of A Body Rebels: A Chronic Illness Podcast is now available. I canceled my lung transplant evaluation after months of research, prayer, and conversations with my wife, but I still want active medical care. Living with sarcoidosis and heart failure has made treatment decisions deeply personal, especially when recovery would ask so …
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