In this age we are in where we are bombarded by information constantly, I worry that we are losing the overarching story of our own...

This painting in our living room is by my favorite artist, Doug Boyd. Sometimes on the weekends while we were living in Hawaii, we would...

I had the pleasure of presenting at the MRSI Workshop for Clinical Translation of Implantable Devices on August 27, 2020. This workshop...

As I watched President Biden’s recent address to Congress, I heard a familiar theme weaved throughout: the spirit of our American...

Excerpt from the subchapter Wrecking Ball, hospitalization of 2015: During that first ten days in the hospital, I was in terrible...

In 1908, an amateur American geologist named Frank Bursley Taylor noticed that the coastlines of Africa and South America were similar,...

Recently, I had the pleasure of being interviewed for Authority Magazine’s ‘Unstoppable’ series. We talked about my experiences with...

What does it say about the health of our nation when every other commercial on TV is for an immune-suppressing biologic? Each commercial...

One of the hurdles we face in translating bioelectronic medicine from bench to bedside is a philosophical shift in how providers think...

Hello all, below you will find a series of blog posts regarding a recent experience I had due to the discovery of a legacy issue of...

*written in 2015, pre-VNS There is a picture painted in my mind of what my life should be — a parallel universe — and there’s no room in...

*written in 2015, pre-VNS We are given a finite amount of time to breathe on this planet. In an infinite universe that stretches across...

I sat down at table ten, an eight-foot round at the back of the room with a sign on it titled ‘Human-Centered Experience.’ It was a...

*written January 21, 2019 Happy Monday, everyone! It’s been a while since I’ve published anything on the website; life has been in...

Well, hello there, everyone! Welcome to vagusnervegirl.com! I’m Kelly Owens. I struggled with Crohn’s disease for 15 years before I found...