Category: Personal
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One year post Stevens-Johnson Syndrome (SJS)
How do you commemorate a traumaversary? An entire year has passed since I was hospitalized for Stevens-Johnson Syndrome (SJS)/Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis (TEN) — a rare yet severe allergic reaction to a medication that began my month-long ICU stay. While blind and intubated for those first few weeks, I felt helpless and captive in my pain…