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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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#1 I got sick the way Hemingway says you go broke: gradually and then suddenly. I had been intermittently unwell since I graduated from college in 1997, and now I was getting steadily worse. I was met by turns with cutting skepticism but also genuine concern from clinicians, friends, and colleagues.
#2 There is a silent epidemic of chronic illnesses that are often marginalized, contested, or even unrecognized. These illnesses are characterized by dysregulation of the immune system and/or the nervous system, which are powerfully intertwined in our bodies.
#3 Many people are still suffering in silence with poorly understood illnesses, and many doctors continue to dismiss patients like me, who have symptoms that appear to be normal test results.
#4 I wrote this book to explain the experience of being ill to myself and to help others who are confronted with the obstinate reality of a hard-to-identify chronic illness. The book actively resists the tidyness of most illness narratives.

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Publié par	Everest Media LLC
Date de parution	22 mars 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781669357384
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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#1

I got sick the way Hemingway says you go broke: gradually and then suddenly. I had been intermittently unwell since I graduated from college in 1997, and now I was getting steadily worse. I was met by turns with cutting skepticism but also genuine concern from clinicians, friends, and colleagues.

#2

There is a silent epidemic of chronic illnesses that are often marginalized, contested, or even unrecognized. These illnesses are characterized by dysregulation of the immune system and/or the nervous system, which are powerfully intertwined in our bodies.

#3

Many people are still suffering in silence with poorly understood illnesses, and many doctors continue to dismiss patients like me, who have symptoms that appear to be normal test results.

#4

I wrote this book to explain the experience of being ill to myself and to help others who are confronted with the obstinate reality of a hard-to-identify chronic illness. The book actively resists the tidyness of most illness narratives.

#5

I want to share my experience with coronavirus with the hope that it can help others, as it did me, understand the disease better and how to live with it. I am not telling this story because I think my illness experience is extraordinary; rather, it is the ordinariness of my story that makes it important to share.

#6

I experienced electric shocks, night sweats, joint pain, and other strange symptoms in my twenties. I associated these symptoms with eating poorly, because it was easy for me to believe that a lack of dietary discipline was responsible for my exhaustion.

#7

I grew up in a family that was largely indifferent to matters of health. My parents took me to the doctor regularly, and handed out Tylenol for fevers, but if the problem was vague or seemingly minor, they tended to ignore it.

#8

I had developed a low fever in February 2012. I was teaching at New York University, and my life was starting to come together again. But I was so tired I could barely focus on my computer screen. I called my doctor, who said I was just a little anemic.

#9

I went to an integrative doctor who found that I had active infections of Epstein-Barr virus, cytomegalovirus, and parvovirus. She suggested some supplements and rest, but I didn’t feel better. I began to suspect that whatever was wrong with me wasn’t going to be as clear-cut as a simple cold.

#10

The truth is, I had no idea what autoimmune diseases really were, even though my family had a long history with them. I read about them and learned that they are diseases where the body attacks its own tissue, usually due to antibodies created in response to a pathogen.

#11

There are an estimated 80 to 100 autoimmune disorders, among them lupus, multiple sclerosis, type 1 diabetes, and rheumatoid arthritis. The Autoimmune Association estimates that as many as 50 million Americans live with autoimmune disorders.

#12

Many autoimmune diseases are still not well understood by the medical community. It can take years for a sufferer to receive a diagnosis, and many doctors do not take a big picture view of the patient’s illness.

#13

I felt like I had a problem with me—something about my very being. I worked too hard, but without enough discipline. I exercised, but I ate junk food. I was sloppy where I should be ascetic. When I felt off, it was my fault.

#14

I began googling healing autoimmune disease online, and I was shocked by the number of people who had the same seemingly disconnected symptoms as me.

#15

I began a diet that many people on Facebook had positive things to say about: the autoimmune Paleo diet. The goal of the diet was to fix any underlying gut flora dysbiosis, and begin repairing the gut by allowing the mucosal wall to heal.

#16

I began to realize that my symptoms were caused by inflammation, which was a result of the gut being damaged. I would go outside to jump on a trampoline, then come inside to dry-brush my body with a natural-bristle brush.

#17

I spent at least half of each day shopping for food, cooking, and cleaning up. I also spent hundreds of dollars I couldn’t really afford on groceries. I was on my way back to wellness, I thought.

#18

I was suffering from an immune-mediated disease, and my symptoms were constantly changing. I was always in pain, and my right thumb and left foot were almost entirely numb. I saw a neurologist about the electric shocks, and she said that my body might be attacking the small fibers of my nervous system.

#19

I woke up the next day in pain, and I remembered feeling lost in the sun and the dog’s joy. I had no sense that I lived in a body except as a thing that could feel the sun and the wind.

#20

I found myself obsessively wondering, What does it mean to have a disease doctors can’t diagnose. I was teaching, and I needed the money. I was barely socializing, and I was finding it hard to write.

#21

I spent hours online reading about other patients who had experienced my electric shocks, but I couldn’t find any in the online autoimmune patient groups.

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