“I’ve Passed Over 200 Kidney Stones.”

Ree Jackson
7 min readJun 26, 2019

It started at my sister’s wedding.

My dad hadn’t been feeling well for days. We thought it was the stress of the wedding, and my sister’s incessant demands that everything be perfect that day. He kept trying to ignore the pain through the whole event.

At the wedding reception, he was really feeling terrible. My cousin, a practicing evangelical Christian, took my dad out to…

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Ree Jackson

Helping people through career trauma. Sharing thoughts on kindness, health, parenting, and politics too. Author of the ebook Reject Revolution. Be well.