Mortality Knocks

Authors

  • Pamela Walker Retired professor of special education from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Abstract

About 10 years ago, I began to have a strange reaction when engaged in the simplest of activities -- walking. I would feel a prickkling at my lips and itchiness would creep down my body. Then my face would grow hideously swollen. My doctor prescribed adrenalin injection pens but I never needed to use them. I did my best to ignore the situation, which appeared unsightly, yet benign, until it became life-threatening.

Author Biography

Pamela Walker, Retired professor of special education from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Pamela Walker has published in multiple genres, including a novel Twyla. Her short fiction has appeared in Hawai’I Review and Iowa Woman, among other publications. Her short fiction and nonfiction have been anthologized in Sleeping with One Eye Open, edited by Marilyn Kallet and Judith Ortiz Cofer, and Bearing Life, edited by Rochelle Ratner, among others. 

References

Atladóttir, H.O., Pederson, M.G., Thorsen, P., Mortensen, P.B., Deleuran, B., Eaton, W. W., & Parner, E. T. (2009). Association of family history of autoimmune diseases and autism spectrum disorders. Pediatrics 24(2), 687-94. doi 10.1542/peds.2008-2445

Acheson, R. M. (1965). Epidemiology of acute rheumatic fever 1950-64. Journal of Chronic Disease, 18:8, 723-734. Doi 10.1016/0021-9681(65)90016-0

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Published

2018-11-15

How to Cite

Walker, P. (2018). Mortality Knocks. Ars Medica, 13(2). Retrieved from https://ars-medica.ca/index.php/journal/article/view/629

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 2 (2018): Moving Together from Our Past to New Opportunities

Section

Prose