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The Six-Week Cycle of My Crohn's Disease
I live my life in six-week intervals. Every couple of months, a visit to the hospital brings injections into my veins. I allow these drugs to creep. The supposed antidote seeps. Into my mixed-up body, where up is sideways and down is dead, the chronic dripping feeds me. Dripping in bags of fluid and mind-numbingly expensive pharmaceuticals. The blind prick of a needle threads a slender tube into the crook of my arm. I watch the wall as the nurses make small talk as if these chemicals were Kool-Aid.