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Putting Up With POTS
A Blog About Life With Chronic Illness
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How I've Experienced Medical Sexism
Early in 2016 I found myself strapped to a table waiting to be tilted until I passed out. It sounds like a medieval torture device but it...
jdsantacrose
Aug 19, 20205 min read


Chronically Ill People Are Not Disposable and Semantics Matter
I keep seeing this thing in medical discourse about risks, specifically risks of death. It’s phrased something like this: “most of the...
jdsantacrose
Aug 10, 20204 min read


This Is How Chronically Ill People Feel All The Time
COVID-19 was recently declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) and many states and counties are limiting gatherings of...
jdsantacrose
Mar 11, 20203 min read


In The Kingdom Of The Sick
In The Kingdom Of The Sick by Laurie Edwards (2013) is a social history of chronic illness. Edwards explores both historical and modern...
jdsantacrose
Mar 7, 20202 min read
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