'Love Means Never Having to Say... Anything' - moving NYT article by PWME Jamison Hill (25 May 2018)

[Sasha]

Wow...

"After dating Shannon for several months, I needed to say something to her, but I couldn’t. It’s not that I was nervous or unsure of the phrasing. It’s that I couldn’t speak. My lungs and larynx couldn’t create the air pressure and vibrations needed to say the words floating around my mind.

This is our reality. I can’t talk to Shannon about anything — not the weather or her day or how beautiful she is. Worst of all, I can’t tell her I love her."​

Read the rest: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/25/style/modern-love-means-never-having-to-say-anything.html

I think Jamison was one of the patients featured in Unrest (he was formerly a body-builder and is now confined to bed).

Very moving piece and a superb piece of advocacy. Hats off to Jamison.

 

[Trish]

Oh, I'm in floods of tears. That is so moving.
And amazing that Jamison was able to write it and get in published in the NYT. Wow.

 

[Joh]

I think Jamison was one of the patients featured in Unrest (he was formerly a body-builder and is now confined to bed).

He was featured in Forgotten Plague.

 

[Sasha]

He was featured in Forgotten Plague.

Doh! You're right. Thanks!

 

[Jaybee00]

It would be nice to get this translated into Chinese, Hindi/Urdu, Spanish, Arabic, French, Malay, Russian, Bengali, Portuguese, Punjabi, German, Japanese, etc., etc., to distribute.....(if allowed by copyright)......

 

[alktipping]

so very heart warming. wonderfully brave writing . and of course heart breaking too. thanks sasha for bringing this to our attention.

 

[Trish]

''My New York Times Essay is on a Podcast''
https://jamisonwrites.com/2019/05/02/my-new-york-times-essay-is-on-a-podcast/

Last year I wrote an essay for the Modern Love column of the New York Times. If you’ve read the column and listened to the companion podcast by WBUR, Boston’s public radio station, then you know that the stories are truly captivating. I read the essays and listen to the podcast most weeks. Though I’m much more faithful to listening to the podcast than I am to reading the actual column because, well, it’s easier to listen.

The essays that are read on the podcast are often a sampling of old and new works. The column has, after all, been around for more than a decade. That’s a lot of essays. Sometimes it takes years for an essay to be adapted from the newspaper to the podcast. The essay that was on the podcast two weeks ago, for instance, was first published twelve years ago.

With that in mind, I am so incredibly honored and proud to announce that my essay was just adapted for the podcast.
....

more at link.

 

[Andy]

Last year I wrote an essay for the Modern Love column of the New York Times. If you’ve read the column and listened to the companion podcast by WBUR, Boston’s public radio station, then you know that the stories are truly captivating. I read the essays and listen to the podcast most weeks. Though I’m much more faithful to listening to the podcast than I am to reading the actual column because, well, it’s easier to listen.

The essays that are read on the podcast are often a sampling of old and new works. The column has, after all, been around for more than a decade. That’s a lot of essays. Sometimes it takes years for an essay to be adapted from the newspaper to the podcast. The essay that was on the podcast two weeks ago, for instance, was first published twelve years ago.

With that in mind, I am so incredibly honored and proud to announce that my essay was just adapted for the podcast.

https://jamisonwrites.com/2019/05/02/my-new-york-times-essay-is-on-a-podcast/

ETA: Cross-posted with Trish