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Micaela Hoo

@micaelahoo

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Sentimental lady with a sensitive stomach (Lyme/mold)
Los Angeles
Co-Founder @myjulyskin @chronicallyhacked
Writing a memoir about growing up sick ✍🏻

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Hi, I’m Micaela.

I wanted to share a proper introduction.

Here’s a glimpse into where I’m from and what I’m building.

Consider this a welcome to me. by @micaelahoo

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6 months ago

Who else remembers I Spy? by @micaelahoo

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17 hours ago

When you’ve been watching too much Masterpiece Theatre by @micaelahoo

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5 days ago

Romanticizing it because the alternative is not.

Chronic illness is realizing just how much of your life is spent recovering from things other people don’t have to think twice about.

The fatigue isn’t just being tired. It’s the kind that settles into your bones, makes getting dressed feel like an accomplishment, and turns an ordinary afternoon into something you need to recover from.

I’ve learned to laugh at the sickly Victorian of it all—but behind the joke is a life that requires a lot of rest, pacing, cancelling, recalibrating, and trying again tomorrow.

Some days I can do more. Some days this is the whole day.

And yes, occasionally the best coping mechanism is pretending I’ve been prescribed bed rest in 1897. by @micaelahoo

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12 days ago

Grandma’s house by @micaelahoo

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19 days ago

It’s 2003 and you’re playing Lizzie McGuire On the Go! on your clear purple Game Boy Advance while you wait for your mom to pick you up from ballet. by @micaelahoo

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22 days ago

Choose your fighter (I fear I’m all of them)

Bonus ones on Instagram Stories :) by @micaelahoo

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a month ago

“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that’s the stuff life is made of.”
—Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanack

I think about that often, and what it means to me.

I could go into a whole rhetoric here about how, as someone living with chronic illness, I cherish time—and my good days—all the more dearly. How, to me, time is a feather floating through the air that I’m trying to grasp and hold onto. How it’s a tennis ball rolling down a hill that I’m forever trying to keep up with. How it’s an exquisite piece of chocolate I’m trying to savor slowly. And how, despite my impatient constitution, perhaps my greatest lesson has been to—cliché be damned—trust the timing.

But I think the heart of the matter is much simpler: life is the greatest gift we’re given, and perhaps the truest expression of our gratitude for it is to make the most of our own existence, in whatever way that means to each of us.

To be here.
To notice it.
To hold it close while we can. by @micaelahoo

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2 months ago

It’s an Instagram world, and we’re all living somewhere between the highlight reel and everything it leaves out.

As someone who is chronically ill, creating content can be draining. When I dress up, people sometimes say, “You look great, you must be feeling better!” And occasionally, that’s true. More often, though, I’m enjoying myself while also running on empty.

It feels good to get dressed, put on makeup, and recognize myself in the mirror again. But I’m usually counting down the hours until I can crawl back into bed and recover.

Wherever life finds you right now—living with chronic illness, carrying something no one else can see, or simply feeling like you’re in your best era—I’m sending love.

🤍 From a girl who loves to play dress-up, but loves her bed just as much. by @micaelahoo

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2 months ago

Some afternoons deserve to be photographed—and remembered—twice.

Our matching @leatherology bags, monogrammed just for us, carried everything we needed. by @micaelahoo

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2 months ago

Good company, something pink in the glass, and hydrangeas in full bloom. This is the pace we want to keep all summer. Our matching @leatherology bags carried the essentials. by @micaelahoo

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2 months ago