People
| Hard to Swallow
(Don’t) Fear the Feeding Tube
My feeding tube could make my life easier and better, but a visceral shame pulsed through me when it came to actually using it.
People
| Hard to Swallow
After Losing the Ability to Eat Solid Food, I Had Lost Twenty Pounds—Did I Want to Lose More?
“I need a new way to eat,” I say. The nutritionist nods and says, “You want to lose some weight while we’re at it, right?”
People
| Hard to Swallow
The Difference a Meal Makes: On Losing the Ability to Eat Solid Food
Nothing had changed from the night before—except for the certainty that everything had changed. Food as I had always known it was now in the past.
People
| Bodies
A Chronology of Touch
“The desire and the wrongness both, inseparable, pulled at me.”