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I was diagnosed nearsighted when I was eleven. Contacts a little after 16. My vision was so bad that I didn’t have an alarm clock because I couldn’t read the numbers at my bedside. In 2004 I had LASIK surgery and one of the side effects is ghosts of light outside stars and the…

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Most of my job is wrapped around the idea of understanding. And it’s a funny thing, really, because there is almost always more understanding to be had…

Mar 13

I’ve always been a writer, and most of the time I have no choice but to write. The words and feelings migrate up and need to spill out of my head and…

Mar 9

I went back to clinic after the February vacation 2020 still sick. It’s a reminder of how little we knew back then, because I wasn’t coughing, I didn’t…

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