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Sempre l'Altra Cosa
http://semprelaltracosa.blogspot.com
Items from the life of a San Francisco fiction writer who just happens to also have Crohn's Disease. With the occasional Journey music video for good measure.
- Added on: Sep 24th, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: krabee
- Listed in: Personal Medicine
- Tags: fiction writing crohn's disease chronic illness ibd auto-immune
Recent Posts
too much finger food
The Thanksgiving holiday concluded, I have returned to San Francisco apparently five pounds heavier, much of which seems to have accumulated in my right hand. Remember that time when my hand blew up to the size of Mount Olympus, and there was gadolin...
the things we do for rejection
This is the third year in a row that Thanksgiving and three to four fellowship application deadlines have coincided, and the third year in a row that, though I knew this in advance --- wasn't that also me who, weeks ago, meekly sallied forth on the h...
we been played
This morning I headed out to the doctor's office. It was raining a little --- just that fey San Francisco rain that sometimes comes, more of a spittle than real precipitation, just enough to ruin your hair. I had my trusty hole-in-the-top Walgreens u...
getting ahead of myself
I never thought I'd say this, but um (cough) thanks, Tysabri.After my tests and infusion earlier this week, which involved an exploded vein, an overnight IV, and being tied down by the neck and placed into a radioactive tube (paging Aldous Huxley!), ...
good reading
Check out a great poem by a great poet, my friend Michelle Chan Brown, at The Missouri Review this week....
byoiv
weeeee doggies. one blown vein and a tysabri infusion later, your correspondent got sent home with the tube in. indeed, as others bring beverages, guests, casseroles to parties, i can now bring my own IV. i'm keeping it in for my liver procedure tomo...
