Bringing Your Whole Self to Work When Your Whole Self Just Had Major Surgery

Hannah Chase
Fearless She Wrote
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7 min readSep 1, 2020

I’ve tried to write this piece a few times before, but haven’t been able to get through it. Perhaps that’s because writing something like this takes time and thought and focus — the type of time and thought and focus that doesn’t usually get prioritized in the days immediately following a major surgery.

Hannah Chase
Fearless She Wrote

Teacher, improviser, adventurer. I mostly write about chronic illness.