'An immunosuppressed, lung-diseased woman (shocker, me!) could die if she contracted coronavirus. My husband is a second-year pediatrics fellow at Mt. Sinai in NYC. I ask when he thinks I can come home to him. He asks me to stop asking.' tessie_the_mess
I have Crohn's Disease—a very forever thing that Michael accepted when our relationship first started making me realize we were maybe, probably a forever thing as well. At 18, I knew there was something special about a guy who’d rush to turn on all the showers in his frat house's bathroom at 3 a.m. to drown out the awful noises my body was making from the toilet—not because he cared, but because he knew how upset I’d be if anyone heard me.
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