Article voiceover
(Could this be
the first poem ever
about Hashimoto’s Disease?)
I’ve had Hashimoto’s many years.
Common autoimmune disorder.
Every day I take a thyroid pill.
Discovered by Japanese physician
Hakaru Hashimoto in 1912.
Connie and David found my
Hashimoto’s years ago. Yesterday
I learned new Hashimoto’s information
from Sarita my eyebrow expert.
The last third of your eyebrow is thin
because of Hashimoto’s she said.
Don’t ask me how I know.
I lost most of my eyebrows from Alopecia,
another autoimmune disease related to stress
they say
Awkward to say I LIKE your revelation about a serious ailment. But I LIKE the eyebrow detail. My theory is that eyebrows thin as we age because we no longer need them to register surprise or alarm. We've now lived long enough to know that what happens is just what happens.