Perseverance and the Love of the Game
Like baseball, living with chronic illness requires perseverance, a love of the game, and hope in the midst of failure.
Category: Personal
Body Image: How to trick yourself into loving your body
Instead of merely accepting my body as an imperfect vessel my brain rides around in, I plan to pretend that I wholly and deeply love my body.
Survival is Insufficient
Reflections on the theme “Survival is Insufficient” from Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel, about the importance of beauty, art, and joy.
I Miss Having Faith in My Body
I’m grieving the loss of a body I can trust and struggling with what it means for the future. Should I have kids? With chronic pain and fatigue, am I capable of being a present, caring mother, who gives them the attention they deserve?
Welcome to the Hypermobile Physicist!
I am a PhD Physicist & semiconductor engineer with a hypermobility connective tissue disorder, blogging about my experiences managing my conditions.