Mar 04 2021 109 mins
Explicit Language warning! We get feisty with a few f-words, but who can blame us after what we've been through thanks to gaslighting doctors?!
In this special extended episode of The Canary Collective Podcast, I, Kaeley Pruitt-Hamm, interview author and musician Sarah Ramey. Sarah and I share many similarities, the most important being that our devastating illnesses that hit us in our twenties launched us into a "medical labyrinth" that connected us with all kinds of other sick womxn. We were told our debilitating chronic illness and chronic pelvic pain symptoms were rare, and then proceeded to meet thousands of others like us - "WOMIs," as Sarah likes to call us, or "Women with Mysterious Illness," - or "canaries," as I like to say.
Sarah wrote an absolutely riveting, "oh-snap!"-moment-filled, deliciously humorous book called "The Lady's Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness: A Memoir," which was reviewed by the likes of Chelsea Clinton and published by Penguin Random House. I interviewed her before I had read her book, just to capture the conversation of "you too? me too!" I thought we might have.
Follow Sarah Ramey's work, order the book, plus listen to her excellent music she releases as "Wolf Larsen": https://www.sarahmarieramey.com/
Watch the Sarah Ramey interview on youtube: https://youtu.be/17K0nHG0QYg