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What Year is It?

Exaggerating some, but pretty close. Hospice and consciousness.

3 min readAug 20, 2022

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What Year is It?

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Palliative Care: What the Heck is This??

Tomorrow, I’ll be starting another leg in my illness journey. Ironically, it’s almost a year to the date when I started Palliative Care in…

6 min readMar 19, 2022

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Lisa Kovanda
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Questions I’ve been Asked

Educating people about medical cannabis one petition signature at a time.

2 min readDec 16, 2021

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Questions I’ve been Asked

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It’s Time to Launch

Medical Marijuana in Nebraska

5 min readSep 30, 2021

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It’s Time to Launch

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Lisa Kovanda
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Chronic Disease is Like a Movie: What Act is your Life?

I had a recent relapse of this rare autoimmune disease, and while I was working on resting to recover from the massive steroids used to…

6 min readSep 23, 2021

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Chronic Disease is Like a Movie: What Act is your Life?

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Lisa Kovanda
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Does this Mean I’m a Cyborg?

The extreme measures chronic pain patients undergo to survive.

3 min readJul 31, 2021

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Does this Mean I’m a Cyborg?

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Lisa Kovanda
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Pure Granola Nuts and All

Preauthorization Purgatory

I’m counting down the days until my pain specialist turns on my newly-implanted spinal cord stimulator. Three. I’m fairly certain I’ll be…

4 min readJul 18, 2021

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Lisa Kovanda

Lisa Kovanda

Creative soul finding her voice in spite of chronic illness. My illness is similar to MS but just as deadly. I’m currently on hospice care.

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