Sublime

My father did not recover. No treatment I could find, none of the desperate phone calls, none of the expert friends and colleagues, none of the work I’d done, nothing made any difference. He died a few months after he was diagnosed, but for many years after, I felt I was still fighting that battle, that if I worked hard enough, I could find somethi

Thinking about disease as a complex individualized consequence of genes and infections and stress and our immune systems means living with uncertainty instead of diagnostic clarity.