“The Many Sick Mothers of My Heart.” Life at the Intersection of Sickness and Trauma In many ways, I’ve known sickness my whole life. Born with eczema that covered my arms and legs in red, rashy welts, peaking as a teenager and returning, uninvited, throughout my adulthood. As a teen, I had regular tonsil infections, two strains of mononucleosis at the same time—“I’ve never seen this before,” remarked my doctor—and […]
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