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A Blog About Life With Chronic Illness
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COVID Grief
When I was 10 my brother died. It was my first major grief process and unsurprisingly it has stuck with me through the years. One thing...
jdsantacrose
Nov 18, 20203 min read


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


The Complex Psychological Impacts of Lockdown
In Pennsylvania, where I live, we have been on some version of a lockdown for the last 5 months or so. People have responded to these...
jdsantacrose
Jul 30, 20205 min read
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