Sick Boy
CamSick Boy is about illness, grief, survival, and refusing to disappear. Reflective essays about chronic pain, addiction, disability, and the quiet rebellions of living in a body that doesn’t perform the way the world expects.
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| Issues | 12 | Founded | 2 years ago | Last Issue | 12 days ago |
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To Love and Be Loved by Sick People
On August 26, (Sarah) and I will have been together for ten years.
Our second date began with a phone call from the emergency room.
It was 10pm on a Wednesday night. I was sitting in the ER with a fever, waiting to find out whether I wou...
I was told it was a cure. I am sicker than ever.
Everyone keeps telling me how healthy I look.
Trying my best.
They mean it as a compliment. They see the weight returning to my face, the color in my skin, the hair growing back. They see me outside of a hospital and believe they are look...
Surviving After Survival
Me at the NIH exactly one year ago
Last week I was back at the NIH in Washington DC for my one year follow up on my bone marrow transplant. By all accounts, this was a life-saving procedure, effectively curing me from a rare gene mutation...
Trust The Body
A note for readers: this piece includes reflections on hospitalization, chronic illness, and medical power. Please read at your own pace.
Death and the Maiden (Schiele) 1915
Health isn’t a linear journey. There is no clean story arc from...
When Your Sick Friend Disappears
It’s been a minute since I’ve posted something here. I’ve felt guilty about it, but the truth is I’ve had a hard time coping both emotionally and physically. Two months ago I made the journey back to Porto from the NIH outside Washington, D...
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A sick boy from Los Angeles. Living in Portugal but at the NIH for a bone marrow transplant. A creator and curator of time and space.
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