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Some people think a person must have been in a war zone, have seen catastrophic events or been in a violent situation to experience post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). But I have learned that is not always the case. Research by Johns Hopkins Medicine shows about 25 percent of people who have spent time in the intensive care [...]

Yesterday was a hard and awful day. It was the worst day, if you ask me. Well at least it got off to almost the worst of possible starts. To be fair, it never promised to be a good day in the first place. When you start your day with a new medication, a bruised [...]

My friend and I were joking yesterday about tattoos. For some reason, it felt really important to get a tattoo before my last brain surgery. Something I could physically see or hold onto — something with predictability or permanence in a life that felt too unpredictable and chaotic and disordered. (I should mention I have [...]