merinz
When her hair fell out I finally accepted that she had cancer.
2012-03-30 12:59:53 / Rating: 283.75 / 
Story archives - tag: "illness"
Hoff
While everyone else threw their caps in the air for graduation, I sat and worried that my mom wouldn't still be alive when I got back to the hospital.
2011-06-02 14:17:05 / Rating: 525.75 /
L
I still wonder what my sister thought when she drove up to the house and saw me standing outside crying, keys in my hand, tugging on the door because I couldn't convince myself I'd locked it.
2010-08-17 14:36:06 / Rating: 331.75 /
Leela
I spent the night of my cousin's wedding on an air mattress in my auntie's living room, taking turns with my little brother puking in a pot.
2009-12-24 00:14:32 / Rating: 376 /
Deli Worker
In the middle of preparing eighteen hot dogs with mustard, sauce and cheese I learned that our family would be lucky to spend Christmas in a hospital and more likely to spend it at a funeral.
2009-12-04 08:57:27 / Rating: 195.75 /
eljay
The 9-1-1 EMTs arrived after the seven longest minutes of my life.
2009-11-30 13:02:31 / Rating: 287.75 /
Bret
I knew by the expression on the doctor's face what it said on the clipboard before he opened his mouth.
2008-04-23 14:52:57 / Rating: 379 /
The Sick Girl
I used to consider one of my biggest talents to be pill-swallowing because I could swallow 8-13 medicines and supplements at a time.
2008-03-06 13:02:47 / Rating: 331 /
never the bride
He told me as far as he was concerned we were married, then he died of AIDS.
2007-05-17 13:49:53 / Rating: 473 /
Sociologist Tina
I fear that people would believe me to be a malingerer, and even my estranged father, upon hearing about the dilemma which my symptoms presented, commented, "I think you're allergic to work."
2006-12-27 11:55:49 / Rating: 628.25 /