Illness might be the most isolating and alienating experience a person can know. Lots of well people simply have no clue how to relate to someone with a chronic and catastrophic illness. That sort of thing is scary even just to witness. They hope (or assume) you’ll get better, and then they won’t have to [...]
Tue, March 30 2010 » Uncategorized » 1 Comment
Sara at Single Gal’s Guide to RA is hosting the next edition of Patients for a Moment. Here’s her announcement: Hey Everyone, I’m hosting the next edition of Duncan Cross’s Patients for a Moment Blog Carnival on April 7th! The topic/question to consider for this round is disclosure: if to tell, who to tell, what [...]
Tue, March 30 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Volume 20 of Patients for a Moment is up at Wellbook. Thanks to Vlad for hosting, and for asking an interesting question.
Fri, March 26 2010 » Uncategorized » 1 Comment
In writing my post for PFAM, I meant to include a snippet of the following excerpt. I had trouble finding it, so I skipped the snippet and posted what I had. Here, today, is the excerpt: I have sought earnestly and with great diligence that good and high virtue by which man may draw closest [...]
Tue, March 23 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Vlad asked: “how have you learned to adapt around your illness in order to accomplish things that are important to you – even though your illness may prevent you from achieving the goals you had before you got sick?” This is a little late, so I hope he accepts it, but here’s my answer: Detachment. [...]
Mon, March 22 2010 » Uncategorized » 4 Comments
My latest post is up at Change.org – What We Still Need From Health Reform: However, this is only the first step — granted, a giant step — towards building a society and a system that is efficient, effective and just in provision of health care. We’ve done a lot, but we’re not quite done [...]
Mon, March 22 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
I stayed up through the first round of voting last night – a late one for me – and went to bed knowing I would wake up in a much-improved America. A lot of the reforms will take a while to get here, but they will get here, and our lives will be better for [...]
Mon, March 22 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
I’m copying this from Wellbook.org, where Vlad will be hosting the next edition of Patients for A Moment. He asks a good question, and I’m looking forward to reading the replies (as well as writing my own this weekend). This question was inspired by the previous PFAM, PFAM 19. My question is about adapting – [...]
Fri, March 19 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
My latest post for Change.org is up – Razing Arizona: Budget Cuts Leave Sick Kids Uninsured – about the budget crisis in Arizona and the Legislature’s insane response: The articles paint a picture of conservative lawmakers going berserk on the most defenseless of their constituents — the sick, the poor and the young. Not only [...]
Tue, March 16 2010 » Uncategorized » 5 Comments
To catch up a little bit with where I wanted to be, I have uploaded the next ten chapters of League of Mortals – 11 through 20. Chapter 11 picks up with the end of Wesley’s surfing trip, which did not go well. It gets even worse. The rest of the chapters chart the last [...]
Mon, March 15 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
A novel crime against decency by Duncan Cross
