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Porochista Khakpour. Sick

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Porochista Khakpour is the author of the novels Sons and Other Flammable Objects, which was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, and The Last Illusion. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Elle, Slate and Salon, among others. She has been awarded a number of fellowships and is currently a guest membr of the faculty at Vermont College of Fine Arts and a Contributing Editor at the Evergreen Review. Born in Tehran and raised in Los Angeles, she now lives in New York City's Harlem. Her memoir, Sick chronicles her discovery of late-stage Lyme disease.

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Mason had gone through one of my “incidents” with me already. He had been the first person I’d called when the Lyme relapse first hit me in November, when I’d pulled over on the side of the highway one rainy evening, suddenly feeling like I couldn’t tell where I was after a long day of teaching. He was the only person I could think to call since he was always checking to make sure I was okay. He had met up with me at the hospital where they’d checked for a stroke with a CT scan but found nothing—Probably like you say, it’s Lyme, the neurologist said lukewarmly. I didn’t think twice about it. Hospital visits were to be expected for the Lyme-struck, after all. And that was when I’d simply called my doctor and he’d ramped up my supplements and suggested the cane.

I put the phone down and glanced in the rearview mirror at my standard poodle, Cosmo, deep in sleep in the backseat. Just moments later, a giant truck burst from the darkness and completely overtook my lane, like a monster that absorbs you, full speed and confident, no hesitation in sight.

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