The Red Thread
poems, Short stories, Articles to get you thinking.
Category: Articles
Topics I’m passionate about and hope you will be too – Let me know!
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— A Thought From Someone Who Lives With One Here’s a question that’s been on my mind recently:We can donate organs after we die. Why don’t we donate devices? I’m talking about pacemakers, defibrillators (ICDs), and vagus nerve stimulators (VNS). These are all sorts of electronic implantables literally designed to keep people alive. They don’t stop…
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by Clara Thorne Growing up with epilepsy is not just about the seizures.It’s about the wires, the white walls, and the endless hum of hospital machines.It’s about being studied more than heard. From a young age, I was tested—prodded, monitored, recorded. I had SEGs (stereoencephalography), EEGs, hospital stays designed not to heal me, but to catch me mid-seizure.…
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