You're Still Sick?

Popular culture would have us believe that there are only two options when one gets really sick--miraculously recover or die. Unfortunately, there is a third option. One remains sick. No tragic death, no inspiring recovery, just chronic illness.

Drea paced around her apartment, gesturing with her free hand. "I mean the doctor] barely looked at me She brie_ y glanced at my health summary and definitely didn't care to answer my questions--if she even heard them at all ... Yes, she must be smart to have completed medical school, and she obviously has more medical knowledge than me, of course--but she wasn't smart enough to try to apply any of it, because she had already decided on a diagnosis and wasn't willing to change it by looking at the whole picture ..."

"A young woman with chronic illness takes matters into her own hands in this debut novel ... the story does an excellent job of portraying the relentless difficulties of suffering from hard-to-treat, chronic illnesses ... a sometimes-exhausting but realistic portrait of life under physical duress." --Kirkus Reviews