Thank Heaven for Small Pills

 Painkillers have been doubled. Feeling much better, and extremely grateful for such pills. Might be able to lie down today?

Since teratomas come etymologically from the Greek word for monster or miracle, it seems mythologically appropriate that we would have monstrous gonads.

The Disabled God, by Eiesland

I'm very dopey from painkillers, so I'm rambly!

One of our friends sent us a gift of books to keep us entertained during our recovery, and one of them is The Disabled God: Toward a Liberatory Theology of Disability, by Nancy Eiesland, made in 1994. It was recommended by a blind minister friend of ours, who we met doing Arisia disability panels together back before the pestilence, and now we have a copy! I'm only about 50 pages in, but it feels like a breath of fresh air and is definitely giving us food for thought for Madgic #3: God, Forsaken. The focus of the Disabled God is on physical disabilities in a Christian context, but a lot is still applicable!

"The bodies we inhabit and the lives those bodies carry on need not be perfect to have value." (15)

( Snippets and quotes and my thoughts about them! )