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The Dialysis Project

by (author) Leah Lewis

Publisher
Breakwater Books Ltd.
Initial publish date
Mar 2023
Category
Canadian, General, Women Authors, Genitourinary & STDs
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781550819618
    Publish Date
    Mar 2023
    List Price
    $17.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781550819625
    Publish Date
    Apr 2023
    List Price
    $15.99

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The Dialysis Project is the first-person story of agency and resilience.

The Dialysis Project is a one-woman play about the experience of a home dialysis patient administering her own medical treatments every other day. The play explores what it’s like to live with a lifelong chronic condition requiring regular medical procedures for survival, and touches on themes of identity and resilience.

About the author

Leah Lewis is a scholar and performer. Her work has focused on exploring chronic illness as a lived experience of many. Leah’s research and writing are arts-based, and work with first-person accounts of resilience and agency as it relates to daily lived experiences of chronic illness.

Leah Lewis' profile page