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Dawn Levitt, Author
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Writer, poet, 2-time heart transplant recipient.
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Author Spotlight #17: Dawn Levitt (@2heartcore4u.bsky.social) and her CNF piece, "Jump Scare My Heart."
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November 17, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Insurance companies are refusing to pay for a common anti-rejection drug prescribed to transplant patients due to an FDA classification.

Please read, sign, and share the petition. You could save lives.
#chronicillness

Medical Gatekeeping of Lifesaving Therapies
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Medical Gatekeeping of Lifesaving Therapies
A personal plea
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November 17, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Do you suffer from Winter Depression?
Here I discuss my own experience with the dark beast’s icy grasp.

#chronicillness
#mentalhealth
#seasonaldepression

Now is the Winter of our Discontent
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Now is the Winter of our Discontent
Here we are, midway between the Autumn Equinox and the Winter Solstice.
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November 11, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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EIC Kelly has a new poetry chapbook out with Bottlecap Press! It's a collection about her lupus. If you feel like supporting a chronically ill writer and editor, here's a link to purchase: bottlecap.press/products/asp...
Paperback copies are $10 each, and digital PDFs are $3.50 each.
November 4, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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Is the defunding of the nationwide SNAP program a calculated plan to create anarchy?

#poverty
#SNAP

Nine Missed Meals
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Nine Missed Meals
And a potential plot to take advantage of desperation?
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November 4, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Happy Halloween! Special Issue 2: Health Scares is out now! Read the issue here: flaremagazinecom.wordpress.com/special-issu...
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October 31, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Thank you to @flaremagazine.bsky.social for publishing my CNF "Jump Scare My Heart" in their special Halloween issue!

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#chronicillness
#disability
#halloween
October 31, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Turn off the TV, stop your scroll, and go outside to enjoy some make-believe goblins instead of the real ones on the news channel.

And have a Snickers. You’re not you when you’re hangry.

#Halloween
#Mentalhealth
#SeasonalDepression

Happy Halloween!
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Happy Halloween!
Ghouls and Goblins aren't even the scariest part of it.
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October 31, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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My thoughts on the ongoing American Hostage Situation.
#resist

Sick and Hungry is No Way to Live
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Sick and Hungry is No Way to Live
This is a Hostage Situation
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October 26, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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A fun seasonal rom-com with just a touch of spice!
#Halloween
#writingcommunity
#spookyseason
#booksky

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Swept Off Her Feet
A seasonal bit of fiction
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October 24, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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A fun seasonal rom-com with just a touch of spice!
#spookyseason
#booksky
#PSL

Swept Off Her Feet
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Swept Off Her Feet
A seasonal bit of fiction
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October 24, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Today is a good day to lead with love.

#NoKings
#Resist

What If We Just Loved Each Other?
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What If We Just Loved Each Other?
Today, October 18th, is a day of nationwide protest.
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October 18, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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The surgery was the easy part. The real struggle was in the recovery.

Never before published details on the nitty gritty side of transplant and recovery.

#chronicillness
#Disability
#transplant

What Happened After the Transplant
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What Happened After the Transplant
A look behind the curtain
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October 16, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation."

We Are All Living Lives of Quiet Desperation
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#chronicillness
#disability
#poverty
#addiction
We Are All Living Lives of Quiet Desperation
Henry David Thoreau famously stated,
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October 11, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Grateful to share that my CNF "Jump Scare My Heart" will be published in @flaremagazine.bsky.social Health Scares issue on Halloween!

A spooky story about my NDE and becoming a temporary ghost. Thank you editor Kelly Esparza!

#writingcommunity
#chronicillness
#disability
#spookyseason
October 7, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Seven years ago today, my life began anew.

Thanks to the generosity of an organ donor and her family.
#donatelife
#hearttransplant
#transplant

The Day I Got My Heart Transplant
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The Day I Got My Heart Transplant
This week, I’m taking you through the buildup to my second heart transplant in October 2018.
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October 6, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Welcome to my favorite week of the year! This week is the anniversary of my second heart transplant, and so much more! Come celebrate with me.
#chronicillness
#disability
#hearttransplant
#transplant
#donatelife

Transplant Week Celebration
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Transplant Week Celebration
Happy Birthday to my Heart!
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October 3, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶

🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈

#FollowTheRainbow
September 29, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Observations on the aftermath of a death in the family.

Life goes on, but in a different manner.

Nobody Prepares You for the Silence
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Nobody Prepares You for the Silence
It has been two weeks since my father’s death; nine days since the funeral.
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September 28, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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My new post, after nearly two weeks away, is an update on my father’s passing and his funeral, and my musings on human connection.

Lightning in September
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Lightning in September
My Father's Funeral
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September 25, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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A visceral question to which everyone remembers the answer.

Where were you on September 11, 2001?
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Where were you on September 11, 2001?
Writer, poet, 2-time heart transplant recipient. Scars are tougher than skin. Trauma survivor. Sharing poetry along with stories of hope and healing. Currently writing a memoir, "Three-Hearted Girl."
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September 11, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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My poem is up @villaineralit.bsky.social !

#poetry
September 10, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Another day, another food recall. This time I got caught when the music stopped. I’ll let you know if I grow an extra ear.
#foodsafety
#radioactiveshrimp
#chronicillness

I Ate Radioactive Shrimp!
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I Ate Radioactive Shrimp!
Will I become a xenomorph?
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September 7, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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WWBD?

What would Barbie do about existing as a woman with a chronic illness?
#chronicillness
#disability

Existing as a Woman with a Chronic Illness is Not Allowed
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Existing as a Woman with a Chronic Illness is Not Allowed
Writer, poet, 2-time heart transplant recipient. Scars are tougher than skin. Trauma survivor. Sharing poetry along with stories of hope and healing. Currently writing a memoir, "Three-Hearted Girl."
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September 5, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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My experience with a popular food delivery service and food borne illness.
#disability
#chronicillness

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The Chicken That Sent Me to the ER
A firsthand account of foodborne illness and the alarming gaps in public health tracking
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August 29, 2025 at 4:46 PM