Can I read The Weight of Unspoken Diagnosis on EtoBox?

The Weight of Unspoken Diagnosis by Loraine Rom is a document available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Weight of Unspoken Diagnosis about?

The poem is about not saying the name of something for 10 years and instead using euphemisms like episode, setback, incident and exacerbation to describe it, and using medical terms like muscle, weakness, numbness, fatigue, vertigo, neuritis, lesion and spasm to avoid being specific.

Author

Loraine Rom

Language

EN