My PICC Line

My personal journey, with aplastic anemia, through the healthcare industry

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Entries Tagged ‘essays’

Happy Labor Day!

Sep.06, 2010 in Personal

Happy Labor Day to All. In the thick of my treatment I continued to write essays here and there and will be posting them to the site. I’ve started to edit one a week and will post as the proofs are finished. In the interest of the blog, each essay will be back-posted to the [...]

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A 23 year old who can’t file his own toe nails

Jul.16, 2009 in essays

It’s 3 a.m. in the 5th floor of the hospital I’ve called home for the last three days.  It’s dark, it’s quiet andI have to make a run to the bathroom. But I can’t. My medication leaves me in an altered state of mind, it leaves me dizzy. If I fall I could bleed, my body doesn’t have much blood to spare. I press [...]

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I'm Matt Sheehan. In July 2009, I learned that I was suffering from the blood disease aplastic anemia. What exactly caused it I may never know. What I do know is that for the next few years, I will endure thousands of hospital hours and the bureaucracy and confusion of the U.S. health care industry. I'd like to share my experiences. Please come back often.

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