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"Past My Prime"
“We won’t need to file Schedule C anymore after this year,” I told my accountant this winter, “I’m no longer getting any sponsor money.” “Oh, Amelia …
Apr 21
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March 2024
Mirrors
I walked into a completely empty apartment in Golden, Colorado. Empty, except for a full-length freestanding mirror propped up in the master bedroom…
Mar 10
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Amelia Boone
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February 2024
Recovery has no endpoint.
In June 2000, six months after being discharged from the pediatric ward at Emanuel Hospital, my treatment team officially declared me recovered…
Feb 25
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Amelia Boone
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Recovery has no endpoint.
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Finding Myself Again
This past week, I was bopping along on a weekday run down my familiar dirt path, jamming out to the best of Sunny Day Real Estate (hello teenage emo…
Feb 18
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Amelia Boone
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January 2024
Maybe.
I fought back tears and growing panic as I said to my therapist, “ok so I know it’s a super low risk but my fear is that I will be one of those few…
Jan 14
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Amelia Boone
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December 2023
Childless or Child-free?
The other day, my dental hygienist made small talk as she cleaned my teeth: “so, do you have any kids?” “Nope,” I sputtered through a mouthful of dental…
Dec 3, 2023
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Amelia Boone
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Childless or Child-free?
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November 2023
"If it Warms Up, it Can't be a Stress Fracture"
And other things I've found to be all wrong about bone injuries
Nov 12, 2023
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Amelia Boone
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"If it Warms Up, it Can't be a Stress Fracture"
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October 2023
This is the hard part.
A week after my stress fracture diagnosis, I crutched around Leadville 100, putting on a brave face (ok, failing but trying). Many wonderful people came…
Oct 15, 2023
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September 2023
So this is 40
My dad’s 40th birthday is emblazoned into my brain: the black decorations, the cake napkins that read “over the hill,” the tombstone cake topper, the…
Sep 27, 2023
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Amelia Boone
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So this is 40
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Please believe me
An hour after I arrived at the residential treatment facility in Carlsbad, I asked the staff where the restroom was. “I have to go with you,” she said…
Sep 17, 2023
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Amelia Boone
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Broken femur, broken heart
"It never always gets worse," or so I've been told
Sep 10, 2023
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Amelia Boone
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Broken femur, broken heart
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"You Shouldn't Break a Bone Running 100 Miles" and Other Things I Believed
On the screen in front of him, my orthopedist examined the Grade 4 stress fracture that split across my lesser trochanter and the extensive surrounding…
Sep 4, 2023
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"You Shouldn't Break a Bone Running 100 Miles" and Other Things I Believed
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