Now, years past the worst of it all — you know, the health crises — I feel safe enough to…
Brad Dell
Brad Dell is Deaf and was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis at 2 months old in 1993. He received a double-lung transplant from UC San Francisco in January 2017, then cochlear implants nine months later. He lives in Hawaii, where he was raised. Usually he’s traveling the world, chugging coffee, or devouring books. He also pastors Restoration Community Church and serves as the director of community content at BioNews, this site’s publisher.
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Articles by Brad Dell
There’s a person I really like. (I’m her boyfriend, it’s nice.) And when I really like someone, I drop my…
I’ll confess an omission. I waited two months before telling the publishing company I worked for that I’d been…
I really did think it’d be my last Christmas. Sure, I was on the lung transplant list, but the doctors…
“It’s not very romantic, swaddled in sweaty, soiled hospital blankets. It’s slow, it’s ugly. And it could happen to anyone…
When things fell apart, I screamed at God to glue me back together again. I’d been struck deaf, and…
Out of 120 columns, my most controversial remains “Sugar Does the Trick, But I Won’t Let It Trick Me.”…
My message is simple: It is a systemic injustice, even ableist, to heap unbearable financial burdens on people with…
She seemed cool and collected when her big surgery date was confirmed. And the next day, Britt…
Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers of the film “Sound of Metal.” I yearn for the days I drew close,…