We don’t romanticize disease—we romanticize surviving it. And that difference matters more than people want to admit.
Category: Notes from the wasteland
Boundaries Are Not Negotiations
A boundary is not a request for better treatment—it is a decision about what you will no longer tolerate. And once it becomes negotiable, so do you.
Scars of Service: Harm Reduction, Redemption, and the People Who Refuse Both
A former provider reflects on becoming the patient—where judgment replaced care, and how harm reduction could have changed everything.
Military Sexual Trauma: The Numbers We Don’t Want to See
Military sexual trauma affects far more veterans than most Americans realize. The statistics reveal a hidden crisis that many survivors carry silently for years.