One of the best books of the year that I intended to review within 2021 but am actually looking forward to treating in 2022 now that my mother's Dark Horse podcast is out is @DouthatNYT's The Deep Places. For anyone who understands chronic illness, Ross nails it.
@DouthatNYT This is not just a book about chronic Lyme. In my review, I plan to discuss how movingly it summed up so much of our family's experience with Mom's vaccine injury, even though Douthat's approach to the pandemic differs from mine.
@DouthatNYT I've said before that I think Douthat is well-placed to be open and sympathetic to the plight of the vaccine-injured. The COVID section of the book focuses on the plight of those with long COVID, but I see parallels and overlap between those categories.
My admittedly anecdotal observation is that people open and sympathetic to the one tend to be skeptical of the other. But both are real, and I think both may even share medical roots. I want to unpack this more in the review. For now, let me just heartily recommend the book.
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