Thoughts While Surviving Chronic Illness: Ramblings From a Chef Whose Body Constantly Rebels
Thoughts While Surviving Chronic Illness is a lived-experience podcast about life with sarcoidosis, heart failure, and the strange realities of long-term illness that no one prepares you for.
This podcast is for people living with sarcoidosis, navigating chronic illness, managing heart failure, or supporting someone with a rare disease.
Hosted by Tate, a private chef living with cardiopulmonary sarcoidosis, this podcast explores what it’s really like to survive chronic illness—not just medically, but emotionally, mentally, and socially.
From symptom flares and medical fatigue to identity shifts, dark humor, grief, resilience, and the quiet victories that keep you going, these episodes reflect real life as it’s actually lived.
This is not a medical podcast. There are no miracle cures and no toxic positivity—just honest reflections, lived experience, and patient-voice storytelling for people living with chronic illness, rare disease, disability, or caring for someone who is.
If you’re learning to live with sarcoidosis, navigating long-term illness, or simply trying to make sense of a body that doesn’t follow the rules anymore—you’re not alone here.
New episodes explore survival, adaptation, and finding meaning in a life that looks different than expected.
Follow the podcast to hear new episodes about living with chronic illness, surviving sarcoidosis, and the small victories that make the journey worthwhile.
Thoughts While Surviving Chronic Illness: Ramblings From a Chef Whose Body Constantly Rebels
Why I Walked Away From Support Groups (And Found My Voice Instead)
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Living with sarcoidosis is already its own exhausting full-time job, so the idea of a support group sounded…promising. Or at least not disastrous. But back in the early 2010s, when my lungs and heart were misbehaving like rebellious teenagers, the search for “people like me” turned into something far stranger than comforting. I won’t spoil the whole story here, but let’s just say it involved Christmas ornaments, long train rides, and me realizing the person I actually needed to find was somewhere else entirely. Maybe someone like you.
This podcast is narrated using an AI voice. The words, reflections, and lived experience are my own.
If you’d like to share a quick thought about the episode, you can text the show using the link in the episode notes. I read every message, but I can’t reply by text because your number is blocked to protect your privacy.
If you’d like a reply, or want to share more about your experience with sarcoidosis or chronic illness, please use the contact form at tatebasildon.com. I’m not able to respond to solicitations or outside project requests.
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