When I was three years old, my little sister, who was 11 months old, was diagnosed with a Stage III Wilms’ Tumor. Wilms’ Tumors are kidney cancer and, luckily, have a high remission rate when caught early enough. My sister, Grace, was in treatment for just over a year. She turned one and two in…
Author: Abby Bucklin
Where Did Van Gogh’s Mind Go?
There is a lot of mystery around what ailed the renowned painter Vincent van Gogh. Some doctors think he had epilepsy, some think he had manic depression or schizophrenia, and others think he had a mix of both conditions. Personally, I believe van Gogh had temporal lobe epilepsy, which led to manic depression. According to Dr. Blumer,…