The Lady’s Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness

696 East Sixth Street, South Boston MA

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To register for this event, please visit: https://www.mos.org/.../ladys-handbook-for-her-mysterious... This virtual offering will stream live from the Museum of Science for registrants to enjoy at home. Those who register in advance will receive links to view this program via email within 24 hours of the event start time. In her harrowing, darkly funny, and unforgettable memoir, Sarah Ramey recounts the decade-long saga of how a seemingly minor illness in her senior year of college turned into a prolonged and elusive condition that destroyed her health but that doctors couldn’t diagnose or treat. Worse, they hinted that her devastating symptoms were psychological. The Lady's Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness is a memoir with a mission: to help the millions of (mostly) women who suffer from unnamed or misunderstood conditions—autoimmune illnesses, fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome, chronic Lyme disease, chronic pain, and many more. Ramey's pursuit of a diagnosis and cure for her own mysterious illness becomes a page-turning medical mystery that reveals a new understanding of today's chronic illnesses as ecological in nature, driven by modern changes to the basic foundations of health, from the quality of our sleep, diet, and social connections to the state of our microbiomes. Her book will open eyes, change lives, and, ultimately, change medicine. In conversation with Meredith Goldstein, advice columnist and features writer for The Boston Globe. Please consider making a gift to support #MOSatHome and our SubSpace virtual winter/spring season at https://donate.mos.org/mosathome and become a vital partner in helping us provide access to free STEM experiences online. This program is free, thanks to the generosity of the Lowell Institute. [FEATURED GUESTS] Sarah Ramey is a writer and musician (known as Wolf Larsen) living in Washington, DC. She graduated from Bowdoin College in 2003, received an MFA in creative nonfiction writing from Columbia in 2007, and worked on President Obama’s 2008 campaign. Meredith Goldstein is an advice columnist and features writer for The Boston Globe. Her column, Love Letters, has been a daily dispatch of wisdom for the lovelorn for more than a decade. She also hosts the Love Letters podcast, which just launched its fourth season (Sept. 15). Meredith’s books include her memoir, Can’t Help Myself: Lessons and Confessions from a Modern Advice Columnist; the young adult novel Chemistry Lessons, and the 2021 YA release Things That Grow. Meredith lives in Jamaica Plain.