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I Now Have an Attention Span
Various things in the last few years have alerted me to the terrifying fact: I don't think I had an attention span at all until, well, now. That I was able to graduate from college, get married, hold down jobs... privilege, and opportunity. Most of the time, I was told that I was that way because I was simply careless,…
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What I Learned
Two years ago I found out I have an autoimmune disease. I will always have it. It changed everything about my life from what I do for money to where I live. It prompted a reinvention of myself which was at turns painful, but ultimately necessary. This is what I learned. Never forego sleep. "You'll sleep more over…
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Rebuilding
Almost exactly two years ago I was, too, on a flight to India.Only then I did not know exactly how drastic a turn my life would take on when I returned. More and more of my friends are getting diagnosed with diseases similar to mine. Autoimmune diseases are the new black.Across all of these experiences the one we've…
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Living with Graves
A year and a half ago, my friends sent me to a local emergency ward in Singapore when I moved in and out of delirium in the middle of dinner. I had been unwell for a long time, but there had been no suitable diagnosis or treatment. I lost nearly 20 kilograms, had the shakes, became insomniac, and most of all,…
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