When confronted with mysterious illness in college, ‘Chronically Catherine’ started writing
After trying 20-plus medications, Catherine Ames, 24, is on about a dozen to manage her symptoms — and uses humor to cope as well. Her column for the USC paper…
“Living With” explores the contours of life with chronic illness, from the prelude to diagnosis to new patterns of living, to wrestling with big questions about illness and health.
As Catherine Ames described it, this was quite a scene. She was hospitalized (again), and so weak and full of pain that she could barely walk. It took three Navy men holding her up to complete her daily walk around the ward. Her concerned mother hoped she wouldn’t lose her balance and fall. But all Ames could think about “was how this was the closest I’d been to cute guys in months.”
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