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Flare - when the going gets tough
The internal experience of a chronic-illness flareup.
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
22 hours ago1 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
22 hours ago1 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
22 hours ago1 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
22 hours ago1 min read
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Flare
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
23 hours ago2 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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