What Doesn't Kill You: A Life with Chronic Illness - Lessons from a Body in Revolt Miller Tessa
What Doesn't Kill You: A Life with Chronic Illness - Lessons from a Body in Revolt Miller Tessa Should be read by anyone with a body. . . . --The New York TimesWhat Doesn't Kill You is the riveting…
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What Doesn't Kill You: A Life with Chronic Illness - Lessons from a Body in Revolt Miller Tessa
Should be read by anyone with a body. . . . --The New York TimesWhat Doesn't Kill You is the riveting account of a young journalist's awakening to chronic illness, weaving together personal story and reporting to shed light on living with an ailment forever.Tessa Miller was an ambitious twentysomething writer in New York City when, on a random fall day, her stomach began to seize up. Relentlessly researched and undeniably smart.
But when it became undeniable that something was seriously wrong, Miller gave in to family pressure and went to the hospital--beginning a years-long nightmare of procedures, misdiagnoses, and life-threatening infections. At first, she toughed it out through searing pain, taking sick days from work, unable to leave the bathroom or her bed. Once she was finally correctly diagnosed with Crohn's disease, Miller