Can You Still Be Ambitious With a Chronic Illness?
I found my grad school acceptance email in my spam folder. At this point I had received rejections from almost
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An early Christmas Present…
(I have posted a shorter version of this on my social media) On Thursday, I got an early Christmas Present-
The Dark Side of “alternative” Medicine
I recently listened to a true crime podcast (for the German speakers among you, it’s called Mordlust), and I had
Beyond the Statistic…
Much has been said written and speculated about the murder of United Healthcare executive Brian Thompson last week. In a
Navigating Healthcare Anxiety
A hard rain’s gonna fall. It’s been a few weeks after the election, and the changes that are coming are
Insurance Shenanigans again….
I sometimes feel like this blog has become a vent for my frustration with the absolute dumpster fire that US
To Port or Not to Port?
After all the infusion drama last year, I thought I had lucked out: The company that provides my infusions has a dedicated nurse come to my house every six weeks, and while there have been some schedule changes (mostly around my traveling!). I truly like my regular nurse, and while the slower pumps that they are using stretch the overall infusion time, it’s fine, I am at home, and can move around, get some work done.
All of this changed with my regular nurse needing surgery and recovery herself.
It’s been a while….
Hello Friends! It’s been a while! A long while indeed, so a little update about me, my Crohn’s and its
The Infusion Drama Continues…
Remember, when I said, that the new place looked promising? Well, how wrong I was. Over the last few infusions,
Accessibility and the “hidden curriculum”
It’s the end of summer- in a few weeks, I will be back on campus, teaching. Every college class, of course, starts with handing out the syllabus, explaining course policies, explaining what we’ll do in class. There is also always an accommodation section, and it is usually a pre-written paragraph from the university that you get to paste into the syllabus. Accommodations can be anything from allowing for more time on exams, how to make up for absences, allowing for recording or other note-taking devices- you get the gist.
The Morbus Crohnicles 