The welt under the eyelid appeared today as it did on Friday, and on Tuesday. The week before and the week before that, going back not months but years. Officially diagnosed as idiopathic angioedema, the swelling happens in either eye, and in my lips, changing the whole look of my face into something not quite…
Author: Renée K. Nicholson
Renée K. Nicholson, MFA was the Director of the Humanities Center at West Virginia University until June 2024. She is the author of FIERCE AND DELICATE: ESSAYS ON DANCE AND ILLNESS and two collections of poetry. She co-edited the anthology BODIES OF TRUTH: PERSONAL NARRATIVES OF ILLNESS, DISABILITY, AND MEDICINE.