A Human Being, Goddamit: On Fighting for a Life of Value, Wishing for a Life of Ease -with Nicole Palma

Nicole Palma showed signs of extreme, unexplained fatigue as early as elementary school. She'd receive a precise diagnosis in her twenties.

A tale 'as old as time,' it seems, a woman misdiagnosed, misjudged, altogether missed. And that's just the beginning of the story.

Nicole and I leave few stones unturned this week as we look at life with medical anomalies, with disabilities, with compounding stressors. From fighting for the diagnosis, to fighting for her job. From navigating new ailments to new 'band-aids.' We talk family and friends and lovers who believe us and those that don't. We talk some of the sweetest memories of leisurely New York walks and the painful reality that those days are gone. 

We ended our previous episode with a realization that the world wasn't built with all bodies in mind. Nicole Palma gives voice, today, to all the ways it surely wasn't, to all the ways it weighs on her mind.