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January 30, 2025
How to Avoid Financial Ruin After a Medical Emergency
By Ines Bellina In late March of 2024, I woke up with a persistent ache in my upper torso that I immediately recognized as a biliary colic. I had been dealing with those symptoms since January and was stubbornly waiting to go to Peru, my home country, to finally get my gallbladder removed. Being hospitalized…

October 14, 2021
Sisterhood of the Amazon Acupressure Mat
The stress I’ve accumulated during the pandemic has manifested itself in increasingly bizarre physical maladies.

April 6, 2021
I’m Obsessed with the Female “Mid-Life Crisis”
Something about the uncertainty of life during a pandemic has, over the past year, sent me chasing nostalgia.