How to Travel with a Chronic Illness During a Flare-Up (My London Trip)
This week on Calling in Sick, we’re debriefing my very impromptu trip to London… which happened one week after I was hospitalized. Yes. That hospitalization. The one with the worst IVIG hangover I’ve ...
16 Feb 34min
Navigating Dating, Work & Duvet Days with Chronic Illness (ft. Caroline Cray): Ask Alex Q&A
It’s finally happening... Calling in Sick is officially launching a SECOND episode every week!!!!!! Y’all’s response to the first Ask Alex episode was so overwhelmingly positive that we had to open i...
11 Feb 30min
Allergic to Everything: Navigating life with MCAS (ft. Caroline Cray)
This week on Calling in Sick, I’m joined by Caroline Cray, a content creator and healthcare recruiter living with Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS), dysautonomia, and multiple severe allergies, to ...
9 Feb 1h 24min
Navigating My 30s with a Chronic Illness: Botox, IVF and Hospital Trips
This week on Calling in Sick, I’m sharing a very real life update. I talk through my chronic illness thoughts on: getting Botox (including my TMJ) with a chronic illness starting to prep for IV...
2 Feb 44min
How Stress, Trauma, and the Lack of Safety Shape Chronic Illness (ft Dr. Sula Wingassen)
This week on Calling in Sick, I’m joined by Dr. Sula Windgassen, a health psychologist, researcher, author of It’s All in Your Body, and fellow chronic illness patient. Dr. Windgassen brings a rare a...
26 Jan 1h 37min
Lessons on Healing From a Doctor Living With Chronic Illness (ft. Dr. Tracy Shevell)
This week on Calling in Sick, I’m joined by Dr. Tracy Shevell — a physician, high-risk OBGYN, women’s health advocate, and chronic illness patient. Dr. Shevell brings a rare dual perspective: what it’...
19 Jan 1h 18min
How Chronic Illness Redefines What Actually Matters, with Tara Rule
This week on Calling in Sick, I’m joined by actor, content creator, and disability rights advocate Tara Rule for an honest, existential conversation about what happens when you come face-to-face with ...
12 Jan 1h 10min
Ask Alex: The Chronic Illness Questions Everyone is Afraid to Ask
Happy New Year my lovies!!! In honor of the new year, I’m officially launching a new podcast segment… Ask Alex! Every week (yes, even during guest episodes!), we’ll post the upcoming podcast topic ...
5 Jan 40min
