Bechets. Rheumatoid Arthritis.

Nightstand Contents

1.Lamp- touch lamp-hard for my hands to flip switches.

2. Wireless Charging Pad- hard to plug in a phone charger.

3. Daily pill case. I chose rainbow because it’s cute; contains day and night meds.

4. Birth control sleeve.

5. Water bottle- doubles as a bluetooth speaker.

6. 1 jar of vaseline.

7. Hand Sanitizer- shaped like a bird.

8. pen/pencil holder

9. Pens and Pencils

10. Pair of scissors

11. Tape dispenser

12. Stapler- My bedside table is also my work desk

Basket Contents

Top Tier

13. Head bands for when I wash my face / for fashion

Middle Tier

14. Sunglasses, fake glasses, and blue light glasses for technology screens and migraines

Bottom Tier

15. 2 different multivitamins, prednisone (1 and 5mg tablets for bursts and emergency use), amitriptyline (daily migraine med), left over antibiotics, left over pain killers, sumatriptan (emergency migraine med), spironolactone (hormonal acne), 2 bottles of perfume I rarely use

Jamie Chernoch

Jaime Chernoch is an MFA candidate in poetry at UMass Boston and teaches intro to creative writing there as well. You can find her at @mononokemaiden on instagram where she posts about disability poetics and advocacy as well as thrifted fashion and her shetland sheepdog Ben.