Add being pregnant with twins and feeling like your belly is about to fall through your vagina onto the floor, because your second trimester actually feels like your third trimester, and your third trimester feels like some imagined fourth trimester that can't possibly exist, and what you have is a kind of temporary psychosis."ĭon't you love this person already? She was put on bed rest for her last three months, during which she developed a liver condition that made her pregnancy high-risk, leading to constant fetal monitoring. "Nerves are tricky for a playwright the week before any opening," she writes "but for Broadway openings, they are nearly impossible.
Ruhl's troubles began at an anxious but hopeful time of her life. If so, here are the pioneers: "Smile," by playwright Sarah Ruhl, and "Flesh & Blood," by fiction writer N. Could this be the start of a trend for delightful illness memoirs? One can only hope. Nevertheless, to run into an illness memoir that one would call "delightful" would seem to be a rare occurrence. Like the sexual abuse memoir and the grief memoir, the illness memoir has a place on the shelf of this roomy, forgiving and most intimate of genres.
But like many other taboo topics, stories of illness can be aired in memoir much more thoroughly than is tolerated anywhere else. To go on about one's health problems at length and in detail is to depart the comfort zone of ordinary conversation - unseemly, possibly boring, even disgusting.
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