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Melissa B.

Melissa B.

When a Diagnosis Makes You Laugh

I went to the dermatologist last week to check up on my MRSA. (It’s “gone” but they did not test me for decolonization. I seem fine. )

May 17, 2017

When a Diagnosis Makes You Laugh

May 17, 2017

Melissa B.

I have MRSA and I Am Going to Beat ALL this Shit

They think I got MRSA because I am in and out of hospitals so much. First it was cellulitis in the same place I had it 4 years ago. Now…

May 3, 2017

I have MRSA and I Am Going to Beat ALL this Shit

May 3, 2017

Melissa B.

Why I Don’t Need Brain Surgery

I am back in the denial stage of my illness.

Apr 3, 2017

Apr 3, 2017

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When darkness finally falls

I have been wrapped in pain and sickness so long I didn’t watch for the nightfall. Night falls during day, and it grips me worse than pain.

Apr 3, 2017

When darkness finally falls

Apr 3, 2017

Melissa B.

“Because I have a rare neurological disease”

I end a lot of sentences like that lately.

Mar 24, 2017

Mar 24, 2017

Melissa B.

I don’t promote stories

Because I am becoming really isolated and depressed. Which makes it so hardly anyone reads them. Which I guess is fine. And I don’t “do”…

Mar 22, 2017

Mar 22, 2017

Melissa B.

I need a break

I am stuck in a new battery of tests and pain, tests and pain and somewhere along the line I knew I was going to want to stop it. I just…

Mar 22, 2017

I need a break

Mar 22, 2017

Melissa B.

A Brain Surgeon Rejected Me

And it really hurt, really bad. It was like walking in a dream, imagining this fix to my disease. He was going to fix me. He was going to…

Mar 11, 2017

A Brain Surgeon Rejected Me

Mar 11, 2017

Melissa B.

Going to the ER to schedule my brain surgery

Oops. Wait. That is literally not possible.

Mar 10, 2017

Mar 10, 2017

Melissa B.

A few words on pain

Pain is an unwanted house guest that may stay forever. You never know. It morphs into different forms and locks itself in with you. First…

Feb 15, 2017

Feb 15, 2017

Melissa B.

Melissa B.

Writer. Poet. Survivor. Learning to live with a rare and chronic disease. I think women are people & deserve pay etc. In fact I think most people are people btw

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