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The Alternative is Death.

Am I Coward?

PSA That Every Single Person Who’s Connected to Dance Should Read

I Have a Fractured Vertebrae

Medicine is Made by Humans.

That Doesn’t Make It Any Less F*cked Up

“The History of Gender Bias in Medicine Has Roots in"...

"Did YOU Know That So Many Kids Are"...?

I Am an Addict.

We Truly Know Every Skeleton in the Other’s Closet...

I Do a Strange Sort of Dissociation...

How Many “Firm” Faces We See Online Right Now

"You're Healing to be Able to Handle Joy"

If You Know Someone Who’s a Teacher… They Are Probably Hurting Right Now

They Can’t Run to the ER

I Had Injections a Couple of Weeks Ago

“We Can’t Give Up on Our Circus Life,” I Whispered

For the Last Few Years of Shows Before She Died

If You’re Needy and Vulnerable and Damaged as I am...

Why We Don’t Look at Ableism as the Sickness?

I Was Thrown Off of a Horse…

The Accident Was on a Trail Ride

The Irritated Nerves? Sore Muscles? Psychosomatic Preemptive Perseveration?

All I Know Is That My Neurosurgeon Can’t Allow Me to...

I’m Going to Confess Something I Shouldn’t…

Are We Forgetting Human Faces?

I Am Not Born or Raised of Deaf Culture.

I Was Supposed To Die This Last Year (?)

I Woke Up at 5:30 and Drove Many Hours to a Doctor

Wondering Why I Was Still Stupidly Here and She Was Not

Unfiltered and Unedited and Unpretty

Anything With Bee Venom

A Moment of Silence For...

I Need Your Suggestions!

“I’m Sorry and I’m Replying Soon and I Love You and I’m Sorry!”

Losing Eurydice: Looking Back At A Week Of Hadestown

FIGHT FOR THEM

How Dare We Want Calories

The Unseen Clock: Time and Chronic Illness

Take The Time To Read This Today

You’re Eventually Going to Have "Red Flag Years"

That is Why it’s Worth Sharing an Uplifting Story

I Can't Afford To Stay Alive With Cystic Fibrosis

I Want You to Get Sick of These Things

A Week in the Life of a Really Achy Lady

Wow. It's Been 1 Whole Year

I Put Bum Cream on My Face.

It Feels Like Such a Violation of Trust

What Jennifer Aniston is Doing to Heal Her Back

Maybe It’s "Just a Sick Person" Talking.

And I Don’t Mean to be Mobility-ist...

"Don’t Feel Like Sh*t!"

That’s a Borderline Embarrassing Thing to Write Online

How Can Less Families Be Divided, and Friendships Lost Forever?

Studies Show That 96.2% of People Suffering From Long Term Illnesses...

Here Are Some Thoughts About S.S.F

That Was “One of the Hardest Weeks of My Life”

I Want to Give You a Brief Trigger Warning

I Used to Never Talk About This

A Last Second, Second-Wind of Surgical Nervous Energy

I Examine What My “Quality of Life” Means to Me

Two Neurosurgery Appointments in One Week

This Is My Holiday Confession

Sick Mothers Aren’t Automatically Bad Mothers.

I Just Had Surgery Hours Ago (The Unabridged Version)