We don’t romanticize disease—we romanticize surviving it. And that difference matters more than people want to admit.
Tag: Notes from the Wasteland
Cake, Punch, and Encephalitis
We’ve turned childhood diseases into nostalgia and vaccines into controversy. As a healthcare provider, I’ve seen what these illnesses actually do—and it’s nothing worth celebrating.
Drawing the Line in the Wasteland
At some point, you stop adjusting your boundaries to survive other people—and start adjusting to their absence instead. A reflection on grief, people-pleasing, and finally learning where to draw the line.