Trying to Have a Baby with Chronic Illness
This week on Calling in Sick, Coop and I are sitting down for one of the most vulnerable conversations we’ve had yet. We’re talking about the reality of trying to have a baby while living with chronic...
23 Feb 1h 6min
Traveling With Chronic Illness (Food, Allergies, Compression & Long Flights): Ask Alex Q&A
In this Calling in Sick x Ask Alex, I’m answering your real-life questions about navigating international travel with chronic illness… after just getting back from a very impromptu trip to London myse...
18 Feb 18min
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
