{"id":487265,"date":"2023-02-22T20:23:51","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T04:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/?p=487265"},"modified":"2026-02-12T17:18:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T01:18:41","slug":"creativity-and-recovery-an-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/2023\/02\/22\/creativity-and-recovery-an-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Creativity and Recovery: An Update"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo of Alice Wong in front of a cement wall. She is wearing a blue cardigan and sitting in a power chair. She is staring intently at the camera, wearing a bold red lip color, and a trach at her neck. Photo credit: Eddie Hernandez Photography.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Last summer I wrote about several major medical crises that led to 4 weeks in the intensive care unit<\/a>. Months later, my recovery has been slow, difficult, and frustrating.\u00a0 Healing is not a linear process! And yet…I feel such a rush of creativity and the urge to tell my story. Being so intimate with suffering and death will do that to you I guess. Here are six recent published stories by me covering different aspects of where I am right now. I think of these pieces as an epilogue to my memoir, Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life<\/a>, since SO much has changed since the writing of the book. Enjoy!<\/p>\n

I Still Have a Voice, KQED\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Constant Cravings: Life With a Feeding Tube, Eater<\/a><\/p>\n

‘My Life Is in My Caregivers’ Hands’: Disability Advocate Alice Wong’s Vision for a New Approach to Health Care, KQED<\/a><\/p>\n

California\u2019s power outages are a life-and-death issue, High Country News<\/a><\/p>\n

Alice Wong on Hospitalization, Crowdfunding Medical Care, and Finding Love In Community<\/span>, Teen Vogue<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

What I\u2019ve learned being reliant on a caregiver, CNN<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last summer I wrote about several major medical crises that led to 4 weeks in the intensive care unit. Months later, my recovery has been slow, difficult, and frustrating.\u00a0 Healing … Continue Reading Creativity and Recovery: An Update<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":489951,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[548706274,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-487265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dvp-blog-posts-and-essays","category-uncategorized","post-has-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Header-on-creativity-and-recovery.png?fit=1600%2C900&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4H7t1-22L7","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}