[Photo: stock.xchng.com] Recently, a friend sent me the link to an article about some absolutely wacky sounding illnesses. At first when I started to read down through the list, I thought it might be a humorous article. But then I came upon Pica. We all know that one as an uncontrollable urge to eat...

That’s right, I even took a picture of what my doctor wrote down for me.  I have Acquired Idiopathic Dysautonomia with Polyneuropathy, and I couldn’t be happier. How cool is it that my doctor even misspelled it? When I heard him, I was like, “What the fuck is that?”  Acquir...

My husband and I were living in England when I became pregnant in 2004. Everyone had told us that pregnancy and birth were what Britain's National Health Service "did best". But mine was no simple pregnancy, as I'd been born with a heart defect that lead me to artificial heart valve replacement at a...