I got sick in 2003, and as much as I tried, illness was a relationship I could never manage to leave. In spite of seeing every doctor in Colorado, I could not divorce my body from its pain. In 2010, I woke up in a scream that lasted eight months. A Charley horse bucking through my blood. I didn’t believe I could live through it for half an hour, then half a year passed and it was still nowhere close to tamed.
