Burnt Sugar: A Novel by Avni Doshi (2021)

Chapter 2When Dilip goes down on me, he sweeps his nose against my labia and inhales ( Read more... )

Volume Control: Hearing in a Deafening World by David Owen (2019)

One: Pardon?Tinnitus is usually accompanied by hearing loss. It’s said to affect forty-five million Americans, including a surprising number of people in their teens and twenties and thirties-although so many of the people I talked to while working on this book told me they have it ( Read more... )

What Doesn't Kill You: A Life with Chronic Illness - Lessons from a Body in Revolt by Tessa Miller (2021)

Chapter 2: DoctorsOpen Payments, a federal database established under the Affordable Care Act to monitor the flow of pharma industry money, found that two-thirds of Americans who’d visited a doctor in the last year saw a physician who had ( Read more... )

What Doesn't Kill You: A Life with Chronic Illness - Lessons from a Body in Revolt by Tessa Miller (2021)

Chapter 12: FriendsChronic illness not only complicated my attitude toward family but also toward my friends... I instinctively chose to isolate... my friends needed me to explain the mechanics of IBD and how different it made my life, but ( Read more... )

The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde (2020)

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I do not forget cancer for very long, ever. That keeps me armed and on my toes, but also with a slight background noise of fear. Carl Simonton’s book, Getting Well Again, has been really helpful to me, even though his smugness infuriates me sometimes. The visualizations and deep relaxing ( Read more... )

Chronic: The Hidden Cause of the Autoimmune Pandemic and How to Get Healthy Again by Steven Phillips and Dana Parish (2021)

ForewordWhy is the medical community complacently treating patients with inflammatory autoimmune diseases with immunosuppressives when these drugs only treat symptoms- not root cause-and put patients at greater risk for ( Read more... )

Keep It Moving: Lessons for the Rest of Your Life by Twyla Tharp (2019)

Chapter 1: Terms and ConditionsAge is not the enemy. Stagnation is the enemy. Complacency is the enemy. Stasis is the enemy (6 ( Read more... )

Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear by Carl Hart (2021)

10. Dope Science: The Truth About OpioidsIn 2014, I gave a book talk in Geneva, Switzerland, that focused on methamphetamine use. During the question-and-answer period, I managed to say a few uninformed things about heroin, despite their being outside the scope of my ( Read more... )

The Book of Moods: How I Turned my Worst Emotions Into My Best Life by Lauren Martin (2020)Note to Readers: In recounting the events in this memoir, chronologies have been compressed or altered and details have been changed to assist the narrative. Where dialogue appears, the intention was to re-create the essence of conversations rather than ( Read more... )

Reframe Your Thinking Around Autism by Holly Bridges (2015)

Reframe Your Thinking Around Autism is a smart, easy-to-grasp book that offers a whole new paradigm for understanding and working with autism ( Read more... )