I told him I was happy to talk about behaviors, and I meant it. I would talk about practices and food, and I wasn’t seeking medication or kid gloves. But the answer to nearly every health problem I had faced had come without investigation, without curiosity, without seeing anything but the size of me. I told him that my body cast a long and wide shadow and that every doctor seemed focused on its silhouette, not the body from which that shadow stretched. If every prescription was to suddenly stop having the body I had always had, I said, that wasn’t going to happen. After all, twenty years of
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