I had the most wonderful blogpost in mind for this past Saturday morning. Just one more read-through of the article Friday night and…………….. Not so fast. Snail mail came early Friday afternoon, along with the letter that I had hoped I would never see—my rejection letter from the University of Nebraska American Lives Series. My [...]
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A Time for Sea Creature
Posted in healing, Illness narratives, medical memoir, medicine and literature, PTSD, Writing, tagged autobiography, illness narratives, infant PTSD, medical memoir, memoir, pediatric trauma, PTSD, writing on November 1, 2011 | 8 Comments »
Our “Fourth Quadrant”
Posted in art therapy, Drawings & Images, emotional health, healing, Illness narratives, medicine and literature, mind/body holistic health movement, Poetry, psychological therapy, Writing, tagged drawing, medical memoir, mind/body holistic health movement, psychological therapy, writing on May 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Two weeks ago, I attended a storytelling workshop, Retracing Our Steps (But I forgot the bread crumbs), given by Dr. Hetty Rodenburg, a medical doctor from New Zealand. Her own personal story was one of the most moving and inspirational stories that she shared that day. Years ago, she had signed up for a workshop [...]
Monster Baby
Posted in art therapy, Drawings & Images, emotional health, healing, Illness narratives, infant trauma, pediatric trauma, tagged art, art therapy, drawing, early trauma, infant surgery, infant trauma, medical humanities, parents of critically ill children, pediatric psychological trauma, self-image, self-love on May 8, 2011 | 2 Comments »
This past Wednesday, I spoke in the Humanities class of my friend Dylan Eret at the community college where I teach. His class had been studying images of monsters as representations of culture and society. They had also been reading illness narratives–expressions of the individual as well as the social context in which they were [...]
“The Bellow of a Resected Colon” by Roey Shmool
Posted in adult PTSD, child development, child PTSD, healing, Illness narratives, infant anesthesia, infant PTSD, infant surgery, infant trauma, medical memoir, medicine and literature, mind/body holistic health movement, pediatric trauma, psychological therapy, PTSD, somatic bodywork, trauma, Writing, tagged body image, early trauma, illness narratives, infant anesthesia, infant PTSD, infant surgery, infant trauma, medical memoir, mind/body holistic health movement, pediatric trauma, writing on February 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Wendy here. I’m so happy to introduce Roey to the readers of myincision. What follows is his brief biography and his autobiographical piece, “The Bellow of a Resected Colon.” Please direct your Comments to Roey. I hope he hears from you. ********************** My name is Roey Shmool. I was born with Hirschsprung’s disease and had 7 surgeries [...]
Cooking a Book: Time to Publish
Posted in Illness narratives, Medical Narrative, Poetry, Writing, tagged medical memoir, memoir, writing on November 1, 2010 | 5 Comments »
I finished a draft of my book proposal. Hallelujah! I will be editing it for surface errors this Wednesday evening and then giving it to my partner, Griffin, for the last going over. By the second week in November, the proposal, which includes a sample chapter, will be in the mail to an agent! I [...]
One Year Old
Posted in Illness narratives, medical memoir, medicine and literature, Writing, tagged illness narratives, medical memoir, memoir on August 10, 2010 | 4 Comments »
I want to share a tiny piece of my memoir, The Autobiography of a Sea Creature, with you and the photos from which the memory was drawn. The excerpt is taken from chapter one in which I narrate the story of my surgery for pyloric stenosis and some memories of my early relationship with sea [...]
Scars, Drawings, and Illness Narratives
Posted in anesthesia, Drawings & Images, healing, Illness narratives, trauma, Writing, tagged art therapy, drawing, early trauma, illness narratives, infant surgery on May 16, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Last week, I made a presentation in my friend Dylan Eret’s class in Humanities at the community college where I teach. The subject was Illness Narratives, and I spoke about my surgery and the creative process I engaged in in order to write my memoir. To help students get a real feeling for this creative [...]
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