Ted Meyer
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Imagine being born with a rare genetic mutation. Imagine, at age six, being a human guinea pig at a research hospital. Imagine—between being palpated,
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poked, and prodded—hearing the docs say that you’re not expected to live past adulthood. Imagine an alcoholic mother, a head-in-the-clouds father, and an older, equally diseased brother. Welcome to my reality.
Growing up with illness meant lots of time in and out of hospitals. Being sick gave me an interesting perspective for observing the world around me. The Room Sinatra Died In and Other Medically Adjacent Stories is an essay collection of observations as I remember them—bleak, hopeful, cynical, funny, and ultimately transformational. But I was on a lot of pain medications at the time.
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