Live Your Fear

Veronique Bijou

  • Elastic Limit, or When Body and Mind Have Had Enough

    This morning I left the hospital after a particularly busy 24 hour shift and contemplated both my day and my life choices. The past few weeks have been particularly nerve-wracking, and with every passing day I am becoming acutely aware… Continue reading

  • Proof of Life

    I keep thinking I should write. I keep saying I will. But things are hard, and time is short. So I thought I would leave this here. To let you know that that things are not all fine, I am… Continue reading

  • Catching Up: Stress, Recovery and Gratitude

    I am sitting in by a window on the third floor of an apartment unit in Miraflores, Peru, watching the sun struggle to rise against a gloomy morning. Outside the neighborhood is very slowly showing signs of life: cars intermittently… Continue reading

  • The Irritation of the Soul

    I am exhausted. I am overwhelmed. I am overstimulated. This post should be longer, but it it 10:15 pm and I have to be up at three am. I am having an emotionally horrid month. I am a first year… Continue reading

  • On Finding Joy in the Challenges

    Last week, I was working the second half of a twenty four hour shift when I received a call about an incoming lung transplant surgery patient. Our institution is renowned for its transplant surgeries, specifically lung transplants. In 2025, according… Continue reading