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A writer explores how a Jewish ritual changed her relationship with mortality. By Jessica Alpert I had a hole in my chest. Three weeks had passed since my open-heart surgery. My body was rejecting ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. This past December, I found out I had a form of breast cancer called ductal carcinoma in situ, or DCIS ...

My name is Kathleen Golding (@ kathleeng1112). I am 28 years old and live in New Bern, North Carolina. After 20-plus years of struggling with obesity and an eating disorder, I decided to take control ...

I recently had surgery. In the name of transparency, the kind of surgery I had is called a rectopexy. Read about it at your own risk with the link provided. It was performed through my abdomen, ...