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Flare - when the going gets tough
The internal experience of a chronic-illness flareup.
Still standing
Thank you, Love He takes care of the dishes and laundry, pays the bills and vacuums the floor; and while I'm still working, grabs the...
Lavanya Acharya
Apr 81 min read
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Effect
The wheels turn — ancient cogs, gears with perfect teeth pushing into one another in mathematical cohesion... ...do you believe in karma?...
Lavanya Acharya
Apr 71 min read
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Coming home
Savor the small things— The little joys that flirt right around the edges of your attention. Savor them. Make them last. Swirl them...
Lavanya Acharya
Apr 21 min read
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Entropy
I'm falling apart in slow motion, each piece floating away from my core as I stare helpless. The farther it gets, the more I forget what...
Lavanya Acharya
Apr 21 min read
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Reconstruction
during a flare; I’m feeling dehumanized I am just a broken mind living in a broken body, seeing the world through a broken lens—...
Lavanya Acharya
Apr 21 min read
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Defeat
I'm angry at myself at the world at pain and at noise; at the futility of my attempts to live without pain. It is no longer pain but an...
Lavanya Acharya
Apr 21 min read
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Flare - prologue
Chronic illnesses can be weird. They like to travel in groups so if you have one it's likely you have a couple others tagging along for...
Lavanya Acharya
Apr 22 min read
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Resilience - I
I am defeated. It happens. They come and they go— the highs and the lows as natural as the waves or the tides, or the wind;...
Lavanya Acharya
Mar 151 min read
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