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Published in Fearless She Wrote

·May 2, 2022

Thoughts on Resilience

I have been labeled “resilient” more than a few times. I had my thirteenth major surgery a month ago, and shortly after waking up in the cramped recovery area, my surgeon came to my bedside. Having to project over the familiar din of the surrounding machines’ beeps and buzzes, he…

Resilience

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Thoughts on Resilience
Thoughts on Resilience
Resilience

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Published in Fearless She Wrote

·Sep 1, 2020

Bringing Your Whole Self to Work When Your Whole Self Just Had Major Surgery

I’ve tried to write this piece a few times before, but haven’t been able to get through it. …

Mental Health

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Bringing Your Whole Self to Work When Your Whole Self Just Had Major Surgery
Bringing Your Whole Self to Work When Your Whole Self Just Had Major Surgery
Mental Health

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Published in Invisible Illness

·Apr 5, 2020

Adjusting to Unwanted Change

Tips from your friendly chronic illness sufferer — I’m not a COVID-19 expert. But I am someone with a chronic illness — an illness that will never go away, and one which has completely changed the way I live (despite my many attempts to behave as if that weren’t the case). …

Chronic Illness

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Adjusting to Unwanted Change
Adjusting to Unwanted Change
Chronic Illness

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Published in Invisible Illness

·Dec 8, 2019

Needles @ Work

A Crohn’s Story — It’s Crohn’s and Colitis Awareness Week, and I’ve been wanting to write a longer piece for it, but I’ve been too tired to get it together. So in lieu of something more comprehensive, I’m just going to talk about my day yesterday. I take an expensive medication called Stelara. When…

Health

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Needles @ Work
Needles @ Work
Health

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May 21, 2019

Having a Chronic Illness Sucks and It Never Stops Sucking

My life with Crohn’s Disease — Having a chronic illness sucks. It sucked when I was first diagnosed as a college freshman, and it sucks today as a 34-year-old woman. It sucks every single day and it will never stop sucking, and that’s just the truth. When I was 18, I was diagnosed with Crohn’s Disease…

Health

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Having a Chronic Illness Sucks and It Never Stops Sucking
Having a Chronic Illness Sucks and It Never Stops Sucking
Health

12 min read

Hannah Chase

Hannah Chase

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Teacher, improviser, adventurer. I mostly write about chronic illness.

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