by Mitchell Weitzman | Sep 11, 2025 | Parent/Caregiver Voices
Detail from Marc Chagall’s “The Sacrifice of Isaac” (Rokus Cornelis/Wikimedia) Three years ago, my son, Joshua, then 21, was weighed down by myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and could hardly walk up half a flight of stairs....
by Jessica | Oct 20, 2023 | The Zebra Chronicles, Featured 2, Patient Voices
As Seen in the Baltimore Sun When Edgar Allan Poe wrote his poem, “The Raven,” he couldn’t have imagined it would inspire the name of Baltimore’s football team (especially considering that the sport hadn’t been invented yet). Nor could he have known just how much the...
by susanmarshallva | Sep 27, 2023 | The Zebra Chronicles, Featured 1, Patient Voices
Elevating the conversation around empathy is a focus of The Zebra Chronicles. But a prerequisite to demonstrating empathy is understanding, or, equally important, the desire to understand. When my son, Joshua, first began experiencing symptoms that would later be...
by Jessica | Sep 15, 2023 | Parent/Caregiver Voices
“I want to manage expectations,” I told my mother prior to her visiting our home to observe Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, in late September 2022. She hoped that my son, Joshua, would have enough strength to blow the Shofar, a ritual ram’s horn, that she’d once...
by Jessica | Sep 11, 2023 | The Zebra Chronicles, Start Here
A Nord Stage 3 keyboard, a mystic surf-green Fender Telecaster guitar, and an amplifier rest just a few feet from his bed, but they might as well be thousands of miles away. Some days, Joshua Weitzman, 22, is hardly well enough to get out of bed, let alone play the...
