Category: Health: depression, COVID, Scoliosis, etc.

Covid hits home I’m done with this stupid pandemic, especially when it intersects with birthdays, Catholic mass and Diego’s autism, as it has during the first month of 2022. My son Diego is obsessed...Read More →

“I will never cry again,” was the closing sentence of my college admissions essay. Thirty-five years have passed since that essay and I can summon how I felt and what I experienced during that time of...Read More →

Dear pilot,Allow me to introduce myself. My name's Daniella and I'm a phobic passenger. What's my phobia? You guessed it: fear of flying.My fear's so intense I take a dose of clonazepam half an hour...Read More →

"Tinnitus is the perception of sound when no actual external noise is present." American Tinnitus Association Doesn't sound all that bad, now does it? This, however, is what tinnitus actually felt like:...Read More →

I’ve been a finger picker for 37 years. I was in middle school when I began to notice and pull out flakes of skin around my fingernails. I can’t remember how long it took for finger picking to become ...Read More →

It all started in my late teenage years, around 1988. I’d had my adolescent ups and downs, exacerbated by the fact that I had scoliosis and wore a hideous back brace all through high school. But I truly...Read More →