On August 10th, Netflix released a 7-part docu-series (if you can call it that) about 7 people suffering from mysterious and/or un-treatable chronic illnesses. As a fellow Sick Person and fan of Jennifer Brea's (infinitely better) Unrest, I started to watch it almost immediately, but stopped before all of the subjects were even introduced, finding it over-dramatic, over-simplistic, and oddly angled: the third episode, titled Identity, was themed around the idea that patients

Country legend and recent KFC Colonel Reba McEntire once asked "Why do we want what we know we can't have?" I'm pretty sure she was referring to love, beauty, or something similarly romantic. Me, well, I just miss my thyroid gland. Ever since my thyroid was radioactively destroyed when I was 14 (not nearly as cool as it sounds but let's be honest, it does make me sound pretty cool) and Imagine Dragons wrote a song about me, I've been fascinated with the thyroid gland and its