Cul-de-Lampe (1890) by Odilon Redon, from Les Fleurs du Mal.

Source: US National Gallery of Art

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/5d6177ab-4f15-48de-ab52-46b5dc5315cc

#spikes #modernity #illness #modernism #convalescence #walking #paris #art #publicdomain

I went to a local ER last Friday with a few different issues, but the one that pushed me into actually going was I became very #dehydrated. I won't get graphic, but I had not peed for 2 1/2 days.

I was treated with IV fluids and sent home feeling better, but I gotta tell you. I'm still not feeling back to normal. I don't advise it.

And when you read or hear about people on hunger strikes or folks who don't have access to drinking water, show them a lot of respect.

#Illness #Water #Health

Poet and philosopher Lieke Marsman died on Wednesday, aged 35, from cancer, her publisher Pluim announced on Thursday.

Marsman, who was Dutch national poet from 2021 to 2023, was diagnosed with cartilage cancer in 2018. In 2025, she told the Volkskrant she would not let the disease stop her from writing. “I am not resigned to my imminent death. I still have things to say. I want them said,” she said.
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In 2025, Marsman reflected on her illness in Op een andere planeet kunnen ze me redden, a collection of diary entries and philosophical analyses about illness, death and alien life. An English translation is expected in September.
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👉Her last work, De dichter en de duivel, about a storage room which is the gateway to an underground world peopled by “influencers, politicians, opinion makers and columnists – and the devil”, will be published posthumously on June 9.👈

#LiekeMarsman #books #poetry #illness

https://www.dutchnews.nl/2026/06/acclaimed-dutch-poet-and-philosopher-lieke-marsman-dies-aged-35/

People are often kind only to those who look obviously needy or disabled. If someone's weakness is invisible, people often assume everything is OK and expect that person to measure up to society's expectations for healthy people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_disability

#disability #disabled #psychology #medicine #healthcare #illness #society #health #intolerance #tolerance #compassion #sympathy #empathy

"Although some still accept the medical model, the biosocial model of illness is now the prevalent view. Developed by George Engel, it recognizes that biological (genetic, biochemical), psychological (personality, emotion, cognition), and social factors (family, culture) interact to cause illness, and hence the mind can affect the body."

-- Ellen J. Langer, The Mindful Body

#quote #EllenLanger #illness #model #West