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The Body Doesn’t Lie—But Sometimes Doctors Don’t Listen
Lived Experience Isn’t Optional Data. It’s the Truth You Can’t See in a Test Doctors vs. Patients: Why Being Heard Means Everything in...
Jun 192 min read
The Letters I Wrote When I Thought I Was Dying
How hospice taught me to leave a legacy and live one too. When I was in hospice, everything changed. Not just physically, but...
Jun 122 min read
Left at the Door: The Burden of Caregiving During COVID
How Pandemic Policy Redefined the Role of Family Caregivers I want to talk about a group of people who rarely get the spotlight but...
Jun 113 min read
The Part of Heart Disease No One Prepares You For
We hear so much about the physical side of heart disease. The surgeries, medications, rehab. But what about the emotional side? What...
Jun 103 min read
When Your Doctor Says Yes… But the PBM Says No
Why the people deciding your treatment aren’t the ones trained to treat you. Right?! It’s absolutely wild. Your medically trained doctor,...
May 293 min read
This Is What Life After Hospice Looks Like
Advocacy wasn’t the plan—but it became my purpose. Advocacy is deeply personal for me. I’m a two-year hospice survivor living with...
May 283 min read
💬 Dear Doctors: Stop Telling Women It’s Just Anxiety
Because I almost died from the thing you said was in my head. Let’s talk about the elephant in the exam room.You know the one—where...
May 273 min read
Two Diagnoses, One Fight: How We Held Each Other Through the Storm
Caregiver and patient. Wife and husband. Fighter and fighter. Some love stories are sweet. Ours is survival. There was a moment—maybe...
May 222 min read
Your Heart Talks Through Symptoms—Are You Listening?
Sometimes, the body whispers before it screams. Heart failure isn’t just “your heart is not working.” It’s your lungs gasping. It’s your...
May 212 min read
Survival Shouldn’t Depend on a Zip Code
When Access Takes Everything You've Got—And Then Some Nobody really talks about how hard it is to get access to care when you're already...
May 203 min read
Real Talk: Building My Second Chance Took a Village
I talk a lot about second chances—because I’m living proof they exist. But the facts are, I didn’t get here on grit alone. It took a...
May 192 min read
"If no one else was telling their story, then maybe I needed to tell mine. And maybe, just maybe, that would give others permission to share theirs too."
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