Tag: Illness
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What I learned about life, love, and parenthood from our daughter’s chronic illness
Our daughter, Rachel, then six, was diagnosed with an exceedingly rare bone marrow failure condition called Pure Red Cell Aplasia.
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Cancer was the Fear that shadowed me, and then it became my Friend
How a small revelation, planting a seed of worry, worked its way into a life-changing experience at the intersection of fear and acceptance.
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The sanctuary of Family Fridays in an age of lockdown
The face-to-face mealtime tradition, warm as a hug, may be over for now, but thanks to the wonders of technology, the sense of a communal connection lingers on.
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My battle against the brutal beast that turned my marriage upside-down
When a rare illness intrudes on your plans for a perfect marriage, it takes a lot of love, and support from friends and family, to fight the good fight and win the battle
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ada
Ada is an AI-powered doctor in your pocket. It asks you about your symptoms, you answer, and its powerful learning algorithm gives you some possible causes for your ailment.
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The Great Choose-a-Guardian Braai
My husband and I recently updated our wills. When I say recently, I’m including the six to eight months preceding the actual update, signing and safe storage. This included looking at our original choices of guardians and surreptitiously vetting them again.
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How a Great, Big Curveball of Change Put Our Wedding Vows to the test
When Elton explained this to our son, who was 4 at the time, he listened and summarised it as “so Daddy, your lungs don’t feel like being lungs anymore?” It was so on point, my husband uses it as his standard intro when people ask him about his condition.
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How My Nursing Husband Saved My Life, Over & Over Again
Earlier this year, I had a serious bout of meningitis and needed to spend six weeks in bed.