Archive for October, 2014

Music for dancing around while putting your laundry away and thinking about your lovers

Posted by sarcozona on October 10, 2014. No comments.

Rewriting the book on living with chronic illness

Posted by sarcozona on October 9, 2014. 8 comments.

Have you or someone you loved with a chronic condition been let down by the medical system’s approach to chronic pain self-management? @CampOther, @ElitaBaldridge, @cginpvd, myself, and others are working on a project to improve things a bit and we’d like your help. Patients with chronic pain and illness often have a hard time getting […]

While you’re waiting for the bus

Posted by sarcozona on October 9, 2014. No comments.

Stuff worth reading Sometimes My Body Is a Cage Do I share everything Roxane Gay writes? I should. What will we do if the system can no longer create jobs? An interview with Ansel… To be chronically ill in our society is to be a superfluous person in the system Animal populations ‘have halved since […]

I’m famous!

Posted by sarcozona on October 8, 2014. One comment.

My Tenure, She Wrote post on poverty in grad school was cited and extensively quoted in a New York Times blog, which is basically the same thing as the newspaper, right?

Chronic pain workshop totally unprepared for patient with chronic pain

Posted by sarcozona on October 7, 2014. 33 comments.

The chronic pain workshop was upstairs, but I was sobbing in the washroom, loudly. Despite what you may have gathered from recent reports on my blog, I’m not actually much of a crier. I’m definitely not a public crier. But here I was. I’ve been sick for a long time. Navigating my illness has been […]