The Difference a Meal Makes: On Losing the Ability to Eat Solid Food
Nothing had changed from the night before—except for the certainty that everything had changed. Food as I had always known it was now in the past.
This is Hard to Swallow, a new column by Kayla Whaley about nourishment, disability, and adjusting to life after a sudden and massive dietary restriction.
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cancer.
Let’s just try this first.
At least now we know what’s happening,
Kayla Whaley is a senior editor at Disability in Kidlit, a graduate of the Clarion Writers' Workshop, and an MFA candidate in creative nonfiction at the University of Tampa. Her work has appeared at The Toast, The Establishment, Uncanny Magazine, Michigan Quarterly Review, and in Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World, among other venues. She can usually be found being overly sincere on the internet.
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