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PEARS Procedure: My Experience with Open-Heart Surgery
If you’ve been told you need to have the PEARS procedure, you’ve probably done the first thing that everyone does upon finding out about any new medical ‘thing’: run to Google. This is exactly what I did, and while I found endless amounts of NHS explanations, interviews with surgeons and scientific articles that my secondary…
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Finding the Beauty in Abnormality
If you’ve been on this planet for more than a second, you’ll know that social media is essentially fuel for self-hatred. Be slim, but not skinny. Curvy, but not fat. You get so used to seeing the world’s most stereotypically beautiful people every time you go on your phone that, when you finally stop to…
Darcy Maunder
Creative Writer
Darcy Maunder 