Tag: chronic illness

• Spoon Tattoo

  By Amba Elieff Small on her anklethe drawing of a teaspoonlike you would find in your kitchenShe crosses her leg and gently fingers ita reminder that each dayshe is given a certain amount of energy – spoonsWhen the spoons are goneher body will register exhaustionand the day must endbecause there are no more spoonsAnd if…

  kneebracepress

  March 23, 2023

  poetry

  poetry, poem, chronic pain, chronic illness, spoonie, spoons, ehlers danlos syndrome, essential thrombocytosis, amba elieff, tattoo

• Searching for Bunker Norms

  By Cait Gordon “Understand so far, you?” I didn’t, but Neffrey’s theories about the nefarious conspiracies of the BeforeTime often boggled my mind. “Yes,” I nodded and signed in reply. Crap, my hands are trembling again. “You feel cold?” she signed. I shook my head. “You hurt?” I made a face when I saw she…

  kneebracepress

  March 9, 2023

  short stories

  cait gordon, chronic illness, chronic pain, deaf, disability, fiction, mad, mental health, mental health is health, neurodivergence, sci-fi, short story, utopia

• Food: A Relationship

  By Nicole Zelniker Seven is really too young to really understand germ theory. You will not die if you don’t wash your hands again today. You will be okay if that piece of fruit touches the table before you skewer it on your fork. But your compulsions aren’t rational, and science takes no part. So…

  kneebracepress

  March 2, 2023

  essays

  anorexia, chronic illness, chronic pain, crohn's disease, eating disorder, essay, nicole zelniker, ocd, recovery

• Ode to Chronic Illness

  By Clara Olivo When the music hits it feels so goodPero esas cumbias hit differentAll over my bodythe same waythe painrides through my nervous systeminfecting every bit of me that moveswith every breathevery stepand the blink of my eyesjumping across the pain scale4 to 10 in less than 5 on a good day a solid…

  kneebracepress

  February 23, 2023

  poetry

  chronic illness, chronic pain, clara olivo, migrane, poem, poetry, resistance, trauma

• To Thrive in Darkness

  By Jamieson Wolf We were friendly with the dark. I had come to terms with it a long time ago. There was little light that filtered into the labyrinth, but even those small rays of sun were fleeting. Our eyes had become so used to seeing in the dark, but there were things I yearned…

  kneebracepress

  February 2, 2023

  short stories

  cerebral palsy, chronic illness, chronic pain, disability, fantasy, fiction, grief, jamieson wolf, multiple sclerosis, short story

• Ache Awake

  By Sojourner “Hughes” Davidson Every part of me achesLike cracks in the groundLike an earthquake rising from under the surfacePercussion on my bodyMagma boiling Every part of me achesAnd sleep comes like wavesUnder the moon In my headThe sound of a whistling kettleThat can’t be removed from the flameMy bones are on the fireListen to…

  kneebracepress

  December 22, 2022

  poetry

  chronic illness, chronic pain, insomnia, migrane, poem, poetry, sojourner "hughes" davidson