This one is for all the people like me battling pain. . .again, battling pain. . .still. (Note: it’s taken me two months to write this post, probably because the pain waxes and wanes, just as my acceptance of it …
Tag: Celiac Disease
What’s Not Linked to Celiac Disease
Every week it seems I hear a new theory to explain the dramatic rise in autoimmune disease incidence in general and celiac disease in particular. I’m glad researchers are testing these theories, which seem to gain immediate traction and get …
Morality and Medical Issues, Part 2
Tuesday’s post challenged the notion, debunked by gobs of science, that illness and disability somehow are the results of moral failing. After I posted, I went running–it’s my primary treatment for fibromyalgia and for guarding against a host of other …
Illness Is Not A Moral Failing
Screaming loudly from more than a corner of the quest to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act is this notion that moral, upstanding people take care of themselves and do not get sick; therefore, they do not need guaranteed …
