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When medical advocacy consumes parental identity

I spend forty hours a week managing my daughter's rare disease appointments and insurance claims and I have lost who I was before this became my entire life.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The necessary intensity of medical coordination gradually replaces other aspects of selfhood, creating existential displacement.

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“Where Are You with Parenting a child with chronic illness?”

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