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2026-6-3 Post-Cholecystectomy Referred Pain

Learn about referred pain, it can save your life.

*Known disability, it’s possible to be disabled or have infection risk factors you don’t know about.

I started this in December and only finished it last week. Crip time!

2026_4 Mystery GI Agony

Ahh, the art. So fascinating, so wonderful. Here, we see the illmarks website, returning to life, with news of one of my favorite procedures. Cholecystectomy. Yes, of course the artist needed more health problems, you silly!

DesignBohemian: designbohemian.com Snakes Caduceus (Medicine Symbol) - By Claude Paradin - Devises Heroiques (1557) Woven Throw Blanket https://designbohemian.com/products/snakes-caduceus-medicine-symbol-by-04162?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Caduceus #ThrowBlanket #HomeDecor #MedicalArt #Tapestry

A pencil drawing of the nervous system with neurons in my Daler Rowney 5.5x8.5 sketchbook
#NervousSystem #MedicalArt #DalerRowney

2026_2_16 “Botox for Migraine” Injection Set #2, and 5 Hour Drive to/from Appt

https://www.illmarks.com/2026_2_16-botox-for-migraine-injection-set-2-and-5-hour-drive-to-from-appt/

#2 #art #bodyHorror #bodyMapping #bodyart #bodymapping #chronicIllness #chronicIllness #chronicmigraine #disability #disabilityart #DisabledArtist #eds #healthcare #heds #longCovid #longcovid #mcas #medart #medical #medicalArt #migraine #MillionsMissing #neurology #POTS #pwLC #pwme #queer #QueerArt #QueerArtist #SciArt #SciComms #trans #transArt #TransPride

Symptom: Social Security Disability Rejection

61% of Social Security applicants are denied after their first application. I am now on the second appeal, when 49% of remaining applicants are approved, and have hired a lawyer (disability lawyers are only paid if they win your case).

I set a new goal on ko-fi, in order to get more illmarks pieces into the world. The fundraising would cover framing two Med Art Advocacy pieces, and submission fees + professional scanning for the Mütter Medical Museum, a Senior Living Center, a Health Care Center & 3 other shows.

If you are able to comfortably, please buy me a ko-fi. We’re 1/3 of the way to the goal!

https://www.illmarks.com/symptom-social-security-disability-rejection/

#artmuseum #BetterFutures #bodyHorror #chronicIllness #chronicIllness #chronicPain #crowdfund #disability #disabilityart #disabilityJustice #FederalGovernment #kofi #longcovid #medicalArt #MillionsMissing #pwLC #pwme #redesignSystems #socialSecurity #SocialSecurityReform #SSI #systemsFailing #TransformativeFutures #UniversalBasicIncome #US #usa #ushealthcare

2026-1-7 Worst POTS day ever

https://www.illmarks.com/2026-1-7-worst-pots-day-ever/

#anatomy #art #bodyHorror #bodyMapping #bodyhorror #cfs #chronicIllness #CovidIsntOver #Dysautonomia #FediArt #illustration #ink #longCovid #longcovid #mastoart #me #mecfs #medart #medicalArt #MillionsMissing #Patient #PatientLed #POTS #potsie #publicHealth #pwLC #pwme #SciArt #SciComms

Hi #PortfolioDay !

I'm a health&care advocacy designer and artist.

My current project is
@illmarks . I began utilizing body mapping art to log my symptoms, but then expanded the practice to include emotional, systemic, and interpersonal aspects of disability.

I most recently partnered with the University of Washington’s School of Nursing as part of a study on healthcare equity and community tools. I taught a virtual workshop to fellow disabled community members on using symptom mapping art to validate their bodily experiences, which was immensely rewarding.

I hope to expand how I can apply my creativity and help my communities, and would love to collaborate!

(The thing I most miss about my work from before I got more disabled and can no longer work full time is interpersonal collaboration, so I'm slowly trying to bring more collaborations back into my life.)

Please reach out:
[email protected]

#Portfolio #Healthcare #DisabilityArt #MedicalArt #SciArt #SciComms #PublicHealth

Symptom: Neurogenic Inflammation and POTS Blood Pooling

https://www.illmarks.com/symptom-neurogenic-inflammation-and-pots-blood-pooling/

#art #autonomicDysfunction #AutonomicFailure #autonomicNervousSystem #bloodpooling #BloodPressure #bodyHorror #bodyMapping #bodyart #bodyhorror #cardiology #chronicIllness #dinet #dystautonomia #hypotension #longCovid #medart #medicalArt #medicalart #MillionsMissing #neurogenicInflammation #neurogenicInflammation #neurology #orthostaticHypotension #orthostaticIntolerance #posturalOrthostaticTachycardiaSyndrome #POTS #potsie #pwLC #pwme #SciArt #SciComms #SymptomMap #SymptomArt #SymptomMap #tinitus #tinnitus

Symptom: Assigned Female At Birth

https://www.illmarks.com/symptom-assigned-female-at-birth/

#acog #afab #art #AssignedFemaleAtBirth #bodyHorror #bodyMapping #bodyart #bodydysphoria #bodyhorror #chronicIllness #dysphoria #Dysphoric #genderAffirmingCare #GenderAffirmingHealthcare #gyn #gynecology #healthcare #healthcareArt #invasive #longcovid #marginalizedGenders #mastcellactivationsyndrome #mcas #medart #medical #medicalArt #nonbinary #obGyn #OBGYN #pwLC #pwme #reproductiveRights #SciArt #SoTiredOfGoingToTheWomensClinic #trans #TransInclusiveHealthcare #TransRights #TransRightsAreHumanRights

Symptom: October Slide

Here we post on Crip Time.

For folks in the Southern Hemisphere, maybe this will be in time for your Fall Slides? What month do y’all celebrate your horrors in?

https://www.illmarks.com/symptom-october-slide/

#art #Autumn #BarometricPressure #bodyHorror #bodyMapping #chronicIllness #chronicIllness #chronicPain #CripTime #Fall #longCovid #longcovid #medicalArt #MillionsMissing #octoberslide #pwLC #pwme #Seasons #Spring

Two pencil drawings in my Daler Rowney 5.5 x8.5 sketchbook.

I made these drawings for art therapy for my insomnia.

1. A pencil drawing of a Japanese geisha/geiko/geigi woman with her eyes closed.
2. A pencil drawing of the central nervous system having an epileptic seizure.
#epliepsy #epliepsyawareness #arttherapy #pencilgeisha #pencildrawing #pencil #Japanese #Japan #geisha #geiko #geigi #geishaart #dalerrowney #nervoussystem #centralnervoussystem #medicalart

Symptom: Mast Cell Itching

https://www.illmarks.com/symptom-mast-cell-itching/

#allergicreactions #Allergies #allergy #art #bodyHorror #bodyMapping #buildingSafety #chonicillness #chronicIllness #claws #eds #ehlersdanlossyndrome #environmentalIllness #environmentalillness #fingers #formaldehyde #heds #hypermobile #hypermobility #hypermobilityspectrumdisorder #immunology #itched #itching #longCovid #longcovid #mastCell #mastCellActivationSyndrome #mastcell #mastcellactivationsyndrome #mastcelldisease #mastocytosis #mcas #medicalArt #MillionsMissing #nails #POTS #prop65 #publicHealth #publicHealth #pwLC #pwme #scratched #scratching #scratchy #severeallergy #vocs

Diagnosis: Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome

After self-diagnosing, I got an official diagnosis. The victory of the official diagnosis was upstaged by the foot trauma two days previously, which I now know is a broken bone. However, at lest it’s in the same limb as all my other orthopedic trauma and severe arthritis. That’s really my saving grace right now — it’s a familiar injury. Adding another new mystery set of symptoms would be less welcome than rehatching an old burden.

Anyway, back to the art. I love some of the light interactive properties here that are hard to capture in a scan so:

Reflective properties close up, gold paint in the eyes, green metallic reflection for the dark around and in the eyes. The shimmer (ultra fine glittering particles) in the green ink are vibrant blue, and in the blue zebra stripes are color shifting, right now a rose.

Metallic version of the hardware in my leg — I looked at my own x-rays for reference!

Final close up.

https://www.illmarks.com/diagnosis-hypermobile-ehlers-danlos-syndrome/

#art #bodyHorror #bodyMapping #chronicIllness #connectivetissue #connectivetissuedisease #eds #ehlersDanlosSyndrome #ehlersdanlossyndrome #heds #hsd #hypermobile #hypermobileEhlersDanlosSyndrome #hypermobileehlersdanlossyndrome #hypermobility #hypermobilitySpectrum #hypermobilityspectrum #hypermobilityspectrumdisorder #longCovid #longcovid #medicalArt #MillionsMissing #pwLC #pwme

2025-11-17 I fell and severely injured myself on the am before 31 migraine medication injections

https://www.illmarks.com/2025-11-17-i-fell-and-severely-injured-myself-on-the-am-before-31-migraine-medication-injections/

#art #bodyHorror #bodyMapping #chronicIllness #chronicMigraine #chronicmigraine #heds #longCovid #longcovid #medicalArt #migraine #MillionsMissing #mobilityAid #mobilityaid #neurology #orthopedics #pwLC #pwme

Salty watercolor painting, glow wispy 2, glow wispy 1, and glow brush paintings of a brain having a grand mal seizure in Sketchbook
#Sketchbook #watercolor #watercolorpainting #seizureawareness #seizure #epilepsyawareness #epilepsy #medicalart #mixedmedia

2025-8-30 Post-Exertional Symptom Exacerbation & MCAS Environmental Illness

https://www.illmarks.com/2025-8-30-post-exertional-symptom-exacerbation-mcas-environmental-illness/

#allergy #art #bodyHorror #bodyMapping #bodymapping #buildingbiology #cfs #chronicIllness #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #chronicIllness #environmentalillness #envrionmentalIllness #healthcare #healthcarereform #healthinsurance #longCovid #longcovid #mastCell #mastCellActivationSyndrome #mastCellDisease #mastcell #mastcellactivationsyndrome #mastcelldisease #mcas #me #mecfs #medicalArt #medicalactivism #medicalart #medicalblog #medicalreform #MillionsMissing #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #pem #pese #pwLC #pwme #SciArt #scienceart #usahealthcare #ushealthcare

Symptom: POTS Blood Pooling (+ Migraine) & Coat Hanger Pain

https://www.illmarks.com/symptom-pots-blood-pooling-coat-hanger-pain/

#art #bloodPooling #bloodpooling #bodyHorror #bodyMapping #bodymapping #cardiology #chronicIllness #chronicIllness #coatHangerPain #coathangerpain #Dysautonomia #headache #longCovid #longcovid #maskUp #mecfs #medArt #medart #medical #medicalArt #medicine #migraine #MillionsMissing #neurology #posturalOrthostaticTachycardiaSyndrome #POTS #pwLC #pwme #SaltingTheVibes #SciArt

2025 September & October: So tired of this same MCAS nightmare

https://www.illmarks.com/2025-september-october-so-tired-of-this-same-mcas-nightmare/

#Allergies #art #bodyHorror #bodyMapping #bodyhorror #bodymapping #buildingbiology #chemicallysensitive #chronicIllness #chronicIllness #GI #immunology #longCovid #longcovid #mastCell #mastcell #mastcellactivationsyndrome #medicalArt #MillionsMissing #pwLC #pwme

Symptom: Environmental Mast Cell Activation Syndrome Hypothesis – Mold

https://www.illmarks.com/symptom-enviro-mcas-hypothesis-mold/

#allergy #art #blackmold #bodyHorror #bodyMapping #buildingBiology #buildingbiology #chronicIllness #evironmental #fountainPen #fountainpen #longCovid #longcovid #mastCell #mastCellActivationSyndrome #mastCellDisease #mastcell #mcas #medicalArt #MillionsMissing #pnw #pwLC #pwme

Glow cross, glow brush, and glow neon painting of the nervous system sending rapid messages back to the brain in Sketchbook
#Sketchbook #nervoussystem #medicalart #neon

2025-8-22 Almost a week out of the house stopped me from getting worse, but healing is SO SLOW

The MCAS Environmental Exposure Nightmare Continues

https://www.illmarks.com/2025-8-22-almost-a-week-out-of-the-house-stopped-me-from-getting-worse-but-healing-is-so-slow/

#art #autoimmune #bodyHorror #bodyMapping #chronicIllness #environmental #inktober #longCovid #longcovid #mastCell #mastCellActivationSyndrome #mastcell #mcas #medart #medicalArt #MillionsMissing #pwLC #pwme #SciArt

Symptom: Arthralgia and Arthritis

I need to pick a “job title” to describe the work I do here. I initially tried to make a poll with a plug in, but alas it didn’t work the way I hoped.

Here are some of the options I’m considering. Feel free to reply/comment with any or suggest your own!:

• Health & Care Advocacy Designer
• Mast Cell Artist Syndrome
• Chronically ill-ustrating Health Advocacy
• Plague Artist

Rejected (not great for professional use) options that I’ll share with you because I love you, but don’t tell my PCP about any of these, k?

• Notorious Self-Diagnoser
• Health Insurance Reform Enthusiast
• Creatinine-level Checking Creative
• Medical System Subverter
• Bruh They’re a Totally Sick Designer
• Mario’s Brother Appreciator

https://www.illmarks.com/symptom-arthralgia-and-arthritis-and-a-poll/

#art #arthralgia #autoimmune #bodyHorror #bodyMapping #chronicIllness #eds #heds #hsd #hypermobility #hypermobilityspectrum #longCovid #longcovid #mastCell #mastcell #mcas #medicalArt #MillionsMissing #osteoarthritis #pwLC #pwme #spondylitis #symptom #symptomVisualization #symptomtracking

2025_8_19 The symptoms are coming from inside the house.

2026-3-9 edit: A previous version of this page held steps you can take during the acute infection to lower your risk of Long Covid, or lower the severity of how a reinfection will worsen your existing Long Covid.

Information on supporting a FULL recovery from SARS-CoV-2 is now more accessible on its own permalink page here, or from the top bar: Information > Got a Covid Infection?

https://www.illmarks.com/symptoms-are-coming-long-covid-prevention-tips/

#allergy #art #backToSchool #backtoschool #besafe #bodyHorror #bodyMapping #cdc #chronicIllness #covid #covidIsAirborne #covidIsNotOver #covid19 #covid19 #covidcompetent #CovidIsntOver #environmental #health #healthcare #longCovid #longcovid #maskUp #maskup #mastCell #mastCellActivationSyndrome #mastCellDisease #mastcell #mcas #medArt #medart #medblog #medicalArt #MillionsMissing #pwme #SaltingTheVibes #SaltingTheVibes #sarsCov2 #sars2 #sciArt #SciArt #WearAMask #WearARespirator

2025_8_18 I booked a hotel to try to identify/isolate variables. As soon as I walked in the hotel room, I felt my head swell.

https://www.illmarks.com/2025_8_18-i-booked-a-hotel-to-try-to-identify-isolate-variables-as-soon-as-i-walked-in-the-hotel-room-i-felt-my-head-swell/

#art #bodyHorror #bodyMapping #chronicIllness #chronicMigraine #chronicPain #chronicmigraine #covidIsNotOver #CovidIsntOver #longCovid #longcovid #mastCell #mastCellActivationSyndrome #mastCellDisease #mcas #meCfs #mecfs #medArt #medart #medblog #medicalArt #migraine #MillionsMissing #neurology #POTS #pwLC #pwme

2025_8_14 I feel better out of the house, which is incongruous with ME/CFS Long Covid.

https://www.illmarks.com/2025_8_14-i-feel-better-out-of-the-house-which-is-incongruous-with-me-cfs-long-covid/

#art #autoimmune #bodyHorror #bodyMapping #cfs #chronicIllness #longCovid #longcovid #mastCell #mastCellActivationSyndrome #mastCellDisease #mcas #me #meCfs #mecfs #medArt #medart #medicalArt #medicine #migraine #MillionsMissing #neurology #pwLC #pwme #rheumatology