What's Her Problem?
“What’s Her Problem?” is a weekly newsletter tackling Issues at the Heart of Chronic Illness and Disability through personal essays, interviews, opinion pieces, and more!
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What’s Her Problem? Insider #1 (opens the original)
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Rediscovering Myself After Open-Heart Surgery (opens the original)
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Subscribe nowHow I Lost MyselfI sold the condo I owned for ten years the same week I had open-heart surgery.It wasn’t great timing.In the weeks leading up to these two huge, simultaneous events in the fall of 2016, friends and family volunteered their time to pack a decade of my life into boxes.I was too sick to do it myself.The boxes were stored in a local Boston-area storage facility for over a yea
Q&A with Erika Warren of Inciteful Med (opens the original)
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Summer 2026 Article Round-Up (opens the original)
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Wheelchair Tennis Celebrates 50 Years (opens the original)
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“I wonder if you can play tennis in a wheelchair?” In 1976, a college student at the University of Utah got into an accident at a freestyle skiing competition in the Rocky Mountains. Born in Southern California in 1957, this kid who had grown up on water skis and surfboards had chosen to pursue skiing professionally. That day, he was helicoptered to a hospital in Salt Lake City, where he was told he was paralyzed from the waist down due to a “complete spinal cord injury” and would never walk aga
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